Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...
What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...
Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...
Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists, because it ...
After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...
Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...
A radio signal has been detected, pointing to the possible existence of a magnetic field on YZ Ceti b, an exoplanet 12 ...
One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...
Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...
When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...
A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.
Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.