K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

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The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...