"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

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

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Scientists are currently planning two major space missions to search for life in space: NASA's Project HWO and Project LIFE, ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Photo shows the PRIME telescope at Sutherland Observatory in South Africa in August 2022. (Photo courtesy of Osaka University professor Takahiro Sumi)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- How common are solar ...