Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

The 13th session of the Shanghai Master Forum on Science was held at Fudan University on Monday, featuring a captivating ...

An exoplanet completely or densely covered by clouds could aid astronomers in their search for signs of life beyond Earth. Cloudy skies may spoil a picnic or block a view of the stars through a ...

It will be the second such hearing for Isaacman, whose first nomination President Donald Trump pulled earlier this year.

Blue Skies Space, a space science data company headquartered in London, said its satellite was launched from a rocket in California.

NASA will unveil never-before-seen high-resolution images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 19 November, promising new ...