"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

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

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

The search for habitable worlds beyond the solar system now faces a more technical obstacle than distance: uncertainty in the ...

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Supporters of planetary colonization argue that becoming a multi-planet species could safeguard us from potentially ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system has air, even though it orbits precariously close to its star. The exoplanet, ...

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...

An Earth-like world with heavy clouds might not hide life at all. It could make alien life easier to spot if those clouds carry colored microbes from the planet’s skies. Cornell scientists report the ...