In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

Could there be alien life on Proxima b? Discover the possibilities of life thriving on our closest exoplanet neighbor.

The James Webb Space Telescope is turning distant exoplanets from anonymous dots of light into worlds with weather, chemistry ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

Those astronauts are flying on the Shenzhou 21 mission, which arrived at Tiangong on Halloween night. But the spacecraft they ...

An exoplanet completely or densely covered by clouds could aid astronomers in their search for signs of life beyond Earth. Cloudy skies may spoil a picnic or block a view of the stars through a ...

The goal of the Thirty Metre Telescope project is to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before, studying black holes, ...

Researchers have created the first color key of sky-dwelling microbes to help detect signs of alien life in the clouds of ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...