A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

A Stanford scientist's model suggests many small rocky planets can't sustain atmospheres, potentially explaining the scarcity ...

The mission is still in the early stages of its conception, with contracts given recently to firms.

JWST lacks the precision to detect life on exoplanets, and this new telescope aims to change that.

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

Science & Tech News - Space News - Alien life might exist somewhere in the universe, but we still don't know for sure. However, there is one way to know where it might not exist. Scientists have been ...

Scientists can't fully agree on what GJ504b actually is. It may be a massive planet or a brown dwarf, a mysterious class of ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.