When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Amanda Smith, Nikku Madhusudhan Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has long been of interest to NASA because they believe it could host an ocean underneath its ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could provide the best chance for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect ...