The search for life on exoplanet K2-18b faces fresh challenges as new research questions previous claims. Scientists debate ...

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A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

Last month, astronomers claimed to have found the strongest evidence ever of alien life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18 b.

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

Scientists eye LHS 1140 b as a top candidate for habitability, with signs of a warm ocean and a possible atmosphere just 41 ...

Quantum coronagraph filters stellar light using spatial photon sorting New tech may image Earth-like exoplanets near ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the discovery of gases on a faraway planet that may be the same as those produced by ocean plankton on Earth. But a North Carolina ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Astronomers confirm the existence of small, hot and likely rocky planets by observing the subtle gravitational wobbles of the star they orbit Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science ...

A team of astronomers led by a British student found traces of the first-ever-discovered planet moving in a polar orbit ...