Astronomy has always taught us that planets form from vast clouds of dust and gas orbiting young stars. It's a…
An international team of astronomers has figured out a way to determine details of an exoplanet's atmosphere from 50 light-years…
Imagine if the Neptune was only a million miles from Earth. What a view we’d have! … not to mention…
[/caption] The old saying of the universe being stranger than we can imagine definitely applies to a newfound exoplanet orbiting…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory's proposed FINESSE space telescope may not hunt for exoplanets, but it will find out what they're made…
[/caption] Free-floating "rogue" planets may occasionally dip into the inner Solar System, picking up dust containing organic compounds -- a.k.a.…
[/caption] Are we too hopeful in our hunt for extraterrestrial life? Regardless of exoplanet counts, super-Earths and Goldilocks zones, the…
[/caption] According to Star Trek lore, it is only 51 years until humans encounter their first contact with an alien…
[/caption] Earth-sized exoplanets within a distant star's habitable zone could still be very much uninhabitable, depending on potential tidal stresses…
[/caption] It may seem like a silly question -- of course there's life on Earth -- but what if we…