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

A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

Researchers have developed a new technology that can shape the spectrum of light emitted from a laser frequency comb across ...

A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, ...

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

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

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

University of California, Irvine astronomers have identified an exoplanet located in a star's habitable zone, where ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

If alien life exists on the newly discovered JG 251 c, we could know about it in the next 10 years.