The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated | Space ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the surprising origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

One study in the journal Nature found organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. Thus complex organic compounds are not the sole domain of life. They can be made ...