For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

As my kids grew up, I feared losing them. But by embracing their music, hobbies, and passions, I found new ways to connect ...

Blue Skies Space, a space science data company headquartered in London, said its satellite was launched from a rocket in ...

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock tells us why the future of space exploration matters and how she hopes to inspire the next ...

PEEC NEWS RELEASE Step behind the scenes of one of humanity’s greatest scientific achievements at the Los Alamos Nature ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

This collection celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the detection of the first planet outside our Solar System orbiting a main sequence star. Experts reflect on the impact of various milestones in ...

"We thought clouds would hide life from us, but surprisingly, they could help us find life." Astronomers usually don't like clouds. After all, clouds obscure their view of the cosmos. But dense cloud ...

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...

On today’s episode of The Infographics Show, scientists spot something on exoplanet K2-18b that shouldn’t exist without life.

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...