Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Peer review has met its match.

For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...