The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...

What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

It's one of the most basic, and maddening, questions ever posed by scientists, but we're now one step closer to answering it. A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...