A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

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

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

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

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

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

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 ...

THERE are planets beyond our own that could be hiding untouched paradises.  Exoplanet LHS 1140 b is just one of them – and ...

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

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...