The curious minds at What If explore whether a specific exoplanet could potentially host alien life, considering atmosphere, water, and biology.

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

The outdoor stage at Tivoli Friheden in Aarhus, Denmark looks peaceful, yet everything hints at an upcoming show. With props, lighting, and a few people waiting, the atmosphere feels full of ...

The first clue came from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, launched in 2018 to watch large areas of sky for tiny, repeating dips in starlight. Each dip marks a transit and reveals an ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Deep within the remote caves of New Mexico, a bright green wall has been discovered, untouched for an astonishing 49 million ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time identified hydrogen sulfide gas in the atmospheres of three gas-giant exoplanets orbiting HR 8799, a ...

Join Robin Ince and Professor Jen Gupta for an evening of music and astrophysics with THE EXOPLANETS at Hackney Empire. Learn more about the event here!

For 15 years, one nearby exoplanet refused to reveal its secrets, its spectrum stubbornly flat, its atmosphere unreadable.

The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space ...