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

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

NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship space telescope searching for life beyond Earth.

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

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 ...

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

A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...

Garth Meyer NASA chose Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, Jan. 5 for one of seven contracts to advance technology for the ...

WASHINGTON – For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big ...

(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 ...