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

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

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 ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

Recently, a new study utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed a planet located 41 light years away from Earth, which may possess an atmosphere. More importantly, it lies within the ...

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

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

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

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

In a striking departure from traditional astronomical thought, scientists have recently proposed that black holes, long considered the ultimate regions of destruction and inhospitability, could ...

NASA's JWST telescope has identified a potentially habitable planet 41 light years away, which may possess an atmosphere ...

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 ...