The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found that a distant world discovered several years ago could be an "eyeball" ...

What’s more, this watery orb, almost twice as large as Earth, may be our best shot at finding habitable conditions ... temperate planets, adding to the list that begins with LHS 1140 b. But for now, ...

NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for Phase I development as part of their NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is set to explore one of the most promising spots to look for life in the solar system: Jupiter ...

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission ... If humanity doesn’t manage to completely destroy the planet for ourselves before our sun begins to grow noticeably warmer ...

may require a larger telescope to achieve the same goals. HWO is an exciting mission and will provide incredible insights into the prevalence of habitable planets. As we learn more about the ...

Waterworld: up to 50% of the atmosphere of K2-18b may be composed of water Astronomers have for the first time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of ...

A tidally locked planet may seem exotic, but most potentially habitable planets are probably like this. Our closest planetary neighbor, Proxima Centauri b (located in the Alpha Centauri system ...

A MAP of the stars could lead alien-hunters directly to where extra-terrestrial life may ... "habitable" alien worlds. They used data from Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory to identify these planets.

(CNN)-- As NASA prepares to hunt for Earth-like planets in our ... European Space Agency. It may be rocky and covered in lava. NASA is hoping to find much more habitable worlds with the help ...