NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

An astonishing new claim that we have finally discovered “alien life” has left the space world reeling. The world of ...

The findings are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The existence of sub-Neptunes was unexpected before they were discovered by NASA's retired Kepler space telescope in the last decade.

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered groundbreaking insights into the world of sub-Neptunes, a class of exoplanets that have long puzzled astronomers. These small, gassy planets, although ...

JHU / APL / NASA Exciting scientific findings abound ... CfA astronomers are also using the Earth-orbiting Kepler telescope to measure the fluctuations in stars’ brightness that reveal how ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

First discovered in 2015 by the Kepler Space Telescope, K2-18b quickly drew attention ... Of course, skeptics argue that the recent findings might be premature or overblown, pointing to uncertainties ...