Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

NASA model predicts the life-hosting potential of remote planets and moon New habitability tool blends biology, chemistry, ...

The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary space science. The U.S. is building ...

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...

June 14 is Pride Night at The Cincinnati Observatory from 5 to 8 p.m. For the fifth year in a row, the observatory is ...

A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it. Astronomers had detected just a hint, a glimmer of two molecules swirling in the atmosphere of a distant planet ...

But a team of scientists has created a new way to answer whether aliens exist. Daniel Apai, an astrophysicist and ...

Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets ... Looking at the atmosphere of an exoplanet is even more difficult. Scientists use spectroscopy ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is between the sizes of Earth ... writes Brandon Specktor for Live Science. Kevin Stevenson, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in either study ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet ... Additional analysis is needed of K2-18b to determine if anything does indeed live on the planet. Madhusudhan readily acknowledged that ...