The LIFE mission would feature four space telescopes acting together to search for biosignatures on rocky planets in the ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the chances of finding life beyond Earth.

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete for a chance to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Proposals go through ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

It’s also worth noting that all planet-like bodies outside of our solar system are technically called exoplanets, whereas planets refer to the eight orbiting our Sun (though this might change soon).

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

Their study, published in Physics of the Dark Universe, explores how these ancient objects might interact with other bodies ...