What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life beyond Earth, and how can the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Astronomers should search for technosignatures on planets that are not conducive to life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb explains why.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

(Five potential planets have also been detected around the stars of Alpha ... "That probably means they are too hot to be ...