The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Lichens grow in a wide range of shapes and forms. Does their ability to resist UV radiation suggest how microbes might ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified TOI-1846 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 154 light-years away.

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

The chemical basis of the lichen’s resistance lies in its UV-opaque cortex, a structural layer enriched with phenolic lichen ...

Astronomy’s latest trophy planet, TOI-4465 b, is a lumbering gas giant six times heavier than Jupiter. Its existence came to ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...