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

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

WASHINGTON, July 7 (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 ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

It looks like a sapphire jewel in space, but HD 189733bis anything but serene. With winds reaching seven times the speed of ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...

An ocean world that's teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering massive solar flares to erupt. This is the first time a planet has been seen ...

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...