SPECULOOS stands for the Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars, and its goal is to find Earth-like planets around tiny, dim stars. The TEMPOS survey aims to produce a catalog of the ...

The old adage that it's easier to prove a negative could play a crucial role in characterizing nearby exoplanets that could harbor life. The idea is that looking for earth-like planets is tough enough ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...

It has been thought that plate tectonics were a significant factor in the shaping of our planet and the evolution of life. Mars and Venus don't experience such movements of crustal plates, but then ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to imagine, but there are organisms living in ...

The catalog of known worlds beyond our solar system has crossed another threshold. NASA’s official tally now exceeds 6,000 ...

Researchers studied the orbits of 150 planets in the Milky Way and found that many of them were at the right temperature to have life. For generations, scientists have known that the Milky Way ...

How much water do habitable exoplanets need for life as we know it to exist? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

A lab at ASU is allowing students to get some experience working with telescopes on a specific mission. The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is a small telescope — about the size of a ...