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

‘This sort of radio signal would never be present unless material had left the region of strong magnetic fields surrounding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

By tracking active stars, NASA's Pandora will join the search for water and other key signs in exoplanet atmospheres.

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

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the “habitable zone,” where a planet should be neither too hot nor ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

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

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...