After 45 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 & 2 are still making history! These legendary probes have traveled beyond our solar ...
New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...
By detecting frozen water in a distant protoplanetary disk located 1,300 light-years away in the Orion Nebula, JWST has unlocked new possibilities for life beyond our Solar System. The detection ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...
THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.
If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system, it will arguably be done via spectroscopy of an earth-like planet's atmosphere as it passes in front of its parent star.
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this intriguing exoplanet, which is a world beyond our solar system.
An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...
The Kuiper Belt (also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt) is a disc-shaped region beyond the orbit ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.