When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Is there life on other planets? This is a question that humanity has been trying to answer for a very long time now. We haven’t found a single piece of direct evidence proving that it is there, but ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its star, of course! Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

NASA has officially confirmed the finding of its 6000th alien planet, furthering its quest to understand our galaxy and whether there could be life beyond Earth. And while the official count of ...

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...