The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

A team of astronomers shared they’ve found what they say is the most promising sign of extraterrestrial life on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, in a solar system 120 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A new study shows TOI-270 d is a fiery rocky exoplanet, offering fresh insight into the galaxy’s most common planet type.

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...