Using JWST, scientists discovered PSR J2322-2650b — a carbon-rich, lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a pulsar — challenging ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified what they describe as the most compelling evidence so far for biological activity beyond Earth. The findings focus on the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed. This exoplanet, ...