Imagine a distant world, light-years away, where intelligent beings scan the cosmos, searching for hints of life. If their ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered: are w ...

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist with technology similar to ours, could they detect Earth? A team of SETI researchers ...

High winds, hundreds of lightyears away! Dan Smith shows just how fast one planet's jet stream is moving. 🪐💨 ...

Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

What can Earth’s technosignatures—the potential signs of intelligence beyond Earth—teach us about finding technosignatures ...