Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Astronomers may have found the first rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone with signs of an atmosphere. The findings, published ...

New research based on data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests the dwarf planet Ceres may have once possessed a deep, ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

The difficulty in analysis lies not only in the faintness of the signal but also in the star itself. TRAPPIST-1 is a small and temperamental red dwarf star. Its surface is constantly changing due to ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...