The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Life appeared on Earth surprisingly fast, forming within 200 to 500 million years after the planet's birth. This resilience suggests life should be common in the universe—unless an unknown barrier ...

In the quest for life beyond our planet, Earth has long been considered the gold standard for habitability. However, recent research is suggesting that there may be exoplanets out there that could ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

Depending on how you look at it, UC Irvine doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, just made an already unimaginably difficult job – finding and observing planets ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

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