On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Webb Telescope captures TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass planet 50 AU from its star, proving its ability to directly image smaller ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...