The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life. (At least, life as we know it.) But assessing habitability is a difficult ...

The exoplanet LHS 3844b (left) is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits the star LHS 3844 (right). Discovered in 2018 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, LHS 3844b is located 48.6 ...

Any planet that it images will still look like a point of light, but the spectrum of that point of light could reveal whether the planet has oceans, continents, vegetation, animal life or even cities.

The discovery of the "hot Jupiter" exoplanet 51 Pegasi b on Oct. 6, 1995 changed the course of astronomical history.

The reason we haven’t found life elsewhere in the universe is simple ... Using existing telescopes, scientists have already explored the atmospheres of a few Jupiter-size exoplanets. The next ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...

From tentative evidence of habitable planets to the eyebrow-raising suggestion an interstellar comet might not be what it ...

A new era in space research is on the horizon, with the launch of the Mauve space telescope, the world’s first commercial ...

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...