Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

Orienspace's Gravity-1, the world's most powerful solid-fuel rocket, launched from the deck of a ship in the Yellow Sea on ...

Much like the murky waters of the deep ocean, the unpredictable fluidity of Earth’s atmosphere can distort any light that ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Any planet that it images will still look like a point of light, but the spectrum of that point of light could reveal whether the planet has oceans, continents, vegetation, animal life or even cities.