"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated | Space ...

Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

The US is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance the search for life beyond Earth.

On a quest to understand how planets are formed – and ultimately how Earth fits into the cosmic picture – astronomers have ...

The findings also suggest oxygen may not be a permanent biosignature on habitable planets, impacting the search for ...

To address this difficulty, astrophysicists from Villanova drafted in artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope that it could ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the most unusual planets in our Milky Way galaxy, orbiting at a 90° angle to the plane of the orbits of a pair of ...

Astronomers spotted water around a young, sun-like star for the first time ever, and it could help us understand solar system formation.

One study in the journal Nature found organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. Thus complex organic compounds are not the sole domain of life. They can be made ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with ...