In a new study, scientists discover that white dwarf stars have greater potential to host habitable planets than previously ...

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

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

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 ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

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

Artistic rendering of K2-18b, the planet from which astronomers have detected a potential life signature. (Image courtesy of NASA)Following news that ...

📅 Today in History: In 2014, the first discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the habitable zone of another star was confirmed by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The exoplanet, designated as ...

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

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.