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 ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the surprising origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

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 ...

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

Rocket Lab also flies a suborbital variant of Electron known as HASTE, which serves as a testbed for hypersonic technologies.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

NASA has just announced a groundbreaking discovery: 10 new Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that could potentially support life. Using cutting-edge telescopes and advanced detection methods, ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focussed on planets in ...