New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

If there’s one of these planets that could potentially sustain liquid water on the surface, it’s probably that one.” ...

In a striking departure from traditional astronomical thought, scientists have recently proposed that black holes, long considered the ultimate regions of destruction and inhospitability, could ...

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Early results on the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star suggest it lost its original atmosphere to space long ago, and it ...

NASA's JWST telescope has identified a potentially habitable planet 41 light years away, which may possess an atmosphere ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...