Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

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

This landmark discovery of the planet – named TWA 7b – which was recently published in the journal Nature, came after an ...

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

One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

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

A new rectangular telescope design could finally spot Earth-like planets around nearby stars, bringing the search for alien ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez You don't see this every day. "Our hope with this kind of ...

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so by ...