NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship ...

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

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI ...

Researchers studied the orbits of 150 planets in the Milky Way and found that many of them were at the right temperature to have life. For generations, scientists have known that the Milky Way ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of California, Berkeley now estimate that one in five stars like the sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface ...

A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Habitable planets are those that are just the right distance from their star to have a surface temperature that could sustain liquid ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but none have passed the threshold and been accepted as confirmed. But they must ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do ...