What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

Astronomers used JWST’s coronagraphs in a unique way to capture new images of exoplanets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the minds of academics and dreamers alike. As far back as the 16th century, ...

To sort planetary systems into groups, the team examined both the sizes of exoplanets and their period ratios — the number of days a given planet takes to orbit its star divided by the number of ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona imaged the extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," using the ... a doctoral student in astronomy at the University of Arizona, said in a statement.

It started as another exoplanet in a group labeled “ordinary ... Small signs of complex metals emerged, which is odd for a planet once categorized in a simpler way. Furthermore, as starlight passed ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring researchers today ...