Seems unintuitive, but the mounting list of lifeless planets might be exactly what scientists need to figure out how common ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

Learn why finding no obvious biosignatures on 40 to 80 exoplanets doesn't mean that life doesn't exist outside Earth. It just ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

LIFE, the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets, is a proposal for an ambitious new mission designed to reveal how many ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...