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

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a stable atmosphere, the right chemistry, and possibly even things like plate ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and ...

A team of scientists using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the Netherlands has observed radio waves that carry the distinct signatures of aurorae, caused by the interaction between ...

How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Direct images of HIP 99770 b. We show the two highest-quality data sets, using SCExAO/CHARIS observations on (A) 19 May 2021 and (B) 17 October 2021. Data were processed using the adaptive, locally ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...