Efforts to discover extraterrestrial life are increasingly engaging scientists. However, a recent study presents a rather pessimistic view about such a discovery. According to researchers, ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

Astronomers have recently unlocked a new frontier in exoplanet exploration, generating the first 3D map of a distant world.

Astronomers discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky planet four times Earth’s mass orbiting in its star’s habitable zone.