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 ...

Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange ...

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

Astronomers from Keele University in the UK have utilized NASA's planet-hunting TESS telescope to investigate a ...

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 ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search for alien life in the universe.

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

An international team of astronomers has identified a rare, potentially habitable super-Earth just 19.5 light-years from ...

Vesto Melvin Slipher was born on a farm in Mulberry, Indiana, on Nov. 11, 1875. He graduated from high school, taught briefly ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...