NASA seeks to unveil the mysteries of life beyond Earth with the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a powerful telescope engineered for exoplanet research.

Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's telescope and two instruments onto ...

New measurements from NASA's Juno probe have seemingly put to bed the possibility of a magma ocean beneath the surface of Io.

The north polar region of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA's Juno during spacecraft's the 57th close pass of ...

Researchers are preparing to study the atmospheres of Earth-sized exoplanets, focusing on distinguishing those similar to ...

Scientists propose a new technosignature for detecting alien life, involving deuterium-deuterium imprinted on a planet's ...

NASA's new Landolt mission, launching in 2029, will orbit an artificial star around Earth to enhance stellar and planetary ...

A team from the University of Cambridge found that Venus’ interior is dehydrated, suggesting it never had Earth-like oceans.

"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out ...

In the future, astronomers will study the atmospheres of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting other stars. While ...

In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby ...