Some series will never be able to change their protagonist. They may be able to have someone else in the lead role for a spin ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

“It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.” The study was published Wednesday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Other researchers called it an ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...

While more research is needed, “It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet,” said Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge ...

The pair of brown dwarfs, known as 2M1510, were first detected in 2018 by Triaud and others with the Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars (SPECULOOS), another Paranal facility.

With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers say they are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant ...