The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

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

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

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature. Astronomers generally consider water worlds to be among the most common types ...

The Milky Way, the galaxy that houses our solar system, is an enormous and complex structure filled with mysteries, motion and magnificent phenomena. Despite being our galactic home, many of us know ...

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the exoplanet GJ 9827 d, twice the size of Earth and located around 100 ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the “habitable zone”, the region around a star where ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...