Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

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 ...

Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed, no Earthlike planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone.

The Milky Way galaxy, home to our solar system, is a vast structure. It contains billions of stars and a supermassive black hole. The galaxy is constantly rotating and growing by absorbing smaller ...

This article details our understanding of star and planet formation within galaxies, recognising the dynamic nature of ...

Scientists have now observed that planets in the habitable zone, even with water and an atmosphere, are often marred by high levels of carbon dioxide, which is toxic to life as we know it. So the ...

“As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our galaxy seem greatly exaggerated,” the Finnish-led team wrote in a study appearing in Nature Astronomy.