The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

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What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...

Learn why finding no obvious biosignatures on 40 to 80 exoplanets doesn't mean that life doesn't exist outside Earth. It just ...

What can not finding life beyond Earth tell us about the universe? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

Astronomers used JWST’s coronagraphs in a unique way to capture new images of exoplanets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani systems.

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of specialized instruments, allows it to detect very faint emissions coming from ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...