Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere of exoplanets. The post Carbon Dioxide in Distant Exoplanets Discovered By ...

Two new exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a star belonging to a binary pair located about 250 light-years from Earth in the Draco constellation. | Credit: Martin Farnir Astronomers have ...

The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially retired its Gaia spacecraft, after over ten years of data collection on our ...