With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Experts have unveiled details of SIMP 0136, a floating planetary mass thought to be around 20 light-years away from the Earth ...

If there is life on Proxima Centauri b, it could take the Extremely Large Telescope as little as 10 hours to detect its ...

A group of scientists from the University of California, Riverside, has found a new and exciting way to search for alien life ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...