The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

K2-18b, a potentially habitable exoplanet 124 lightyears away, may contain biomarker DMS, but its habitability remains ...

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

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Scientists say they may have found signs of life on exoplanet K2-18b, which is located more than 100 light-years away from ...

Amanda Nguyen, who became the first Vietnamese woman in space, had initially delayed her astronaut dreams to fight for sexual assault survivors' rights.

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...