The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Finding more minuscule worlds with the latest, highly sensitive instruments could open up a new way of understanding how ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

An idea that calls for the creation of inflatable starshades for telescopes has been recognized by NASA as part of the ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

The researchers ruled out the existence of other planets within the habitable zone of Barnard’s Star. The planets are ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

Astronomers should search for technosignatures on planets that are not conducive to life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb ...