The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope could potentially detect signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds, possibly the most ...

Edwards invoked Eroseanna "Rose" Robinson, a high jumper who, incensed by Jim Crow, refused to stand for the national anthem ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

"This work highlights Euclid’s remarkable ability to detect and characterize dwarf galaxies, enabling a comprehensive view of ...

ESA's Euclid space telescope has been providing valuable data from the depths of space for almost two years. With its help, ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have detected a new ultra-faint ...