If there's one modern astronomical concept that has successfully permeated the mainstream media, it's the "Goldilocks zone." Not only is it associated with the search for alien life, one of the more ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

A machine-learning algorithm trained on synthetic planetary systems has been let loose — and in the process has identified nearly four dozen real stars that have a high probability of hosting a rocky ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

The most important aspect of this is that, with a possible atmosphere and liquid water, this planet lies within the habitable ...

Technicians working inside the Astrotech Space Operations facility near NASA's Kennedy Space Center look over the Kepler spacecraft soon after it arrived in Florida in preparation for launch. [Read ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified what they describe as the most compelling evidence so far for biological activity beyond Earth. The findings focus on the ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

A group of Chinese scientists is diving deep into the cosmos in search of alien radio signals from the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which might house planets that could support life. This is no small feat, ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Imagine a planet twice as wide as Earth, covered in an ocean that smells like sweet cabbage. Every day, a faint red star warms this ocean world and the uncountable masses of hungry, plankton-like ...