NASA's Kepler Space Telescope ... Doubts over signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b are rising: 'This is evidence of the scientific process at work' Large alien planets may be born in chaos ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Where are all the aliens? We should have ... passes in front (or "transits"), the space telescope can analyze the "light curve" it records. Although planets are, you know, circular, there may ...

NASA is set to launch a brand new space telescope ... tool in their search for alien worlds, allowing them to block out the light from stars and see the fainter planets directly.

It’s a golden age for planet hunters ... NARRATOR: Meet the Kepler Space Telescope. Its mission: to detect alien worlds orbiting distant stars. And to discover if any of them could be a suitable ...

Whenever the James Webb Space Telescope makes a shocking ... However, recent rumors that Webb found alien life on another planet have started to circle. Are they true? No, they aren’t.

(In the hunt for alien life, this planet just became a top suspect.) Even with these space-based observatories, verifying that a planet orbits another star is time-consuming and difficult.

A research team had previously found that as many as seven Earth-sized planets could orbit a single star. “While white dwarf stars may still give off some heat from residual nuclear activity in ...

"These are the first hints we are seeing of an alien world that ... of the James Webb Space Telescope's unprecedented ability to probe the atmosphere of small planets that orbit far away stars.

You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] Space dust could carry traces of alien life forms to ... When an asteroid impacts a planet, or if any other collision occurs ...

In a first for astronomers studying worlds beyond our solar system, data from the Hubble Space ... home planet, which means they might also sport rocky surfaces. (See some of the most alien ...