Within a few dozen light years of the Sun, the sky is crowded with stars that could, in principle, host living worlds. I want ...

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of a giant planet in the "habitable zone" orbiting a star in the nearest solar system to our own Sun. The discovery was made using NASA's James Webb ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable zone. Reading time 3 minutes Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha ...

This image from a simulation of atmospheric flow shows temperature patterns on one of the newly discovered planets (61Virb), which is hot enough that it glows with its own thermal emission. A movie of ...

The existence of a potentially habitable planet orbiting our closest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, is both an extremely exciting event and sort of "more of the same." While Proxima b is ...