The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

The exoplanet HD 20794 d takes 647 days to orbit its star ... laboratory for modeling and testing new hypotheses in their search for life in the universe. The proximity of this planetary system to its ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad have made a significant discovery, identifying a new ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

It zips around its host star in just four days, following a slightly skewed orbit. The exoplanet is also likely tidally locked to its star the same way the moon is to Earth — but perhaps its ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

It zips around its host star in just four days, following a slightly skewed orbit. The exoplanet is also likely tidally locked to its star the same way the moon is to Earth — but perhaps its biggest ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years ...