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

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

MARS was not always the beaming red we’re so used to seeing in space. Scientists have revealed that it was actually a “blue ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Hints of life may have just flickered into view from a world 124 light-years away, and the signal is coming through the James ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...