Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

By tracking active stars, NASA's Pandora will join the search for water and other key signs in exoplanet atmospheres.

Researchers believe super-Earths orbiting long-lived orange dwarf stars may offer better conditions for life than Earth.

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

If humanity was forced to leave Earth and settle on another planet, where would we go? Well, today, we will look at six of ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...