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

Astronomers are developing plans and technology for increasingly powerful space telescopes. For instance, NASA is working on its proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, which would take ultrasharp ...

Astronomers have detected silicon monoxide gas in the atmosphere of a planet 850 lightyears from Earth, the first time the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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