Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

Earth," is situated in a relatively close region of the Milky Way Galaxy and resembles Earth in appearance but is many times ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

According to Paul Robertson, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine, discovering new exoplanets is common ...

Kepler-452b, a super-Earth orbiting a sun-like star just 1,400 light-years away, has emerged as a prime candidate for ...

E lon Musk, the world's richest man and CEO of private space firm SpaceX, has weighed in on the topic of interstellar object ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has prompted Harvard physicist Avi Loeb to suggest it could be 'artificial'. Loeb argues ...

What does it take for a comet to look like it’s from another world? For interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, the answer came in the form of this striking astrophotograph showing the comet’s shimmering green ...

A century-old astronomical mystery has just been solved: Betelgeuse, the massive red supergiant in Orion’s shoulder, has a ...

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