EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life.

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

If you're feeling that weird cocktail of guilt, fear, and "how do I even talk about this?"—welcome to the club.

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record ...

Amazon Prime Day in October is in its final day and this telescope deal on the Celestron Inspire 100AZ brings the price down ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Some solitary planets wander through interstellar space, offering unexpected surprises about their formation and evolution. Astronomers recently observed a particularly remarkable case in ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

The finding suggests phosphine—a potential biosignature—shouldn’t be viewed as evidence of alien life until natural, ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There's a ...

The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were ...