NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven advanced technology partners for its next major mission, the Habitable Worlds ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...

Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these extrasolar planets — known as exoplanets — may be rocky and ...

Have you ever wondered how to make water from scratch? Exoplanets orbing other stars may have cooked up a new recipe. Manufacturing water is a relatively simple chemical process, albeit a dangerous ...

Thanks to theorists like Ruth Murray-Clay, astronomers are decoding how distant planets form, evolve, and maybe even host life. When Ruth Murray-Clay entered graduate school, only a handful of ...

Steven Spielberg returns to alien storytelling with Disclosure Day, a global thriller exploring what happens when humanity learns we are not alone.

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...