Experts discussed breakthroughs in space research, the future of human habitation beyond Earth, and the UAE’s growing role in ...

Next-generation telescopes like JWST and the 30-meter telescope increase the likelihood of detecting extraterrestrial life within our lifetime.

NASA has continued to captivate the world with groundbreaking discoveries despite facing significant budget constraints. As ...

Absent any answer, it’s entirely reasonable to think that our planet is, and that we are, either as common as dirt or astronomically implausible enough to represent life’s sole spark throughout ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power ...

NASA is celebrating a big milestone after the 6,000th exoplanet discovery was confirmed this week. Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995, scientists have sought the telltale glimmers, flickers and wobbles that ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young sun-like star known as TOI-6109. The newfound alien worlds are slightly larger ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation and evolution of planetary systems." Astronomers have launched a new program ...