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

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

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

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

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

Is there proof aliens exist? 👽 Explore the most convincing scientific evidence for extraterrestrial life, from exoplanets to ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Three decades ago, in 1995, humankind discovered the first planet beyond the borders of our solar system. It's called 51 Pegasi b, and it spins around its main-sequence star (meaning not unlike our ...