The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The observatory will combine tech from NASA's most powerful space telescopes.

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...