Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

The 4.4-meter-aperture telescope, led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and situated at the Lenghu astronomical ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) represents the next leap forward in astronomical observation, designed to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before. This state-of-the-art telescope aims to ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet discovery space and investigating the nature of dark energy. However, since those ...

What if Earth isn’t the most habitable planet in the universe? In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a group of “superhabitable” exoplanets,worlds that may offer even better ...

JWST’s sharp eye on the infrared universe is uniquely suited to studying exoplanet atmospheres. “I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the ...

To build their self-reproduction structures, the team began with an aqueous solution containing monomers to be polymerized, a ...