Scientists have been researching a rocky planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system and discovered that it… sucks. Would this exoplanet ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

"There are hundreds of billions of alien worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. And scientists have already discovered and confirmed ...

may also reveal why Earth uniquely supports life. As advanced telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope explore ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.