“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets, planets beyond our solar system, a milestone that underscores how far the search for alien worlds has come in just three decades. The discovery ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve our search for habitable worlds.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s concept shows how they range in size and composition, although scientists ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995, scientists have sought the telltale glimmers, flickers and wobbles that ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it there anyway ...