There’s more to studying outer space than looking through telescopes and analyzing the mineral compounds in samples collected ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope ... rapidly into the star," MacLeod said. "The planet both falls inward and gets stripped of its gaseous outer layers as it plows deeper ...