This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar neighbor, which lies just 4.2 light-years away — thanks to a powerful new ...

Pandora Mission will attempt to capture the atmospheric conditions of 20 planets as they eclipse their respective suns, an ...

A newly discovered exoplanet has to take the crown for the weirdest world we've ever spotted out there in the Milky Way ...

A newly discovered exoplanet, TOI-561 b, is shaking up conventional theories about planetary atmospheres. According to a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, this ultra-hot ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

Here is a look at just a few of the biggest developments in astronomy that The Debrief has been tracking in 2025.

An exoplanet located 2,000 light years from Earth is so unusual it’s given astronomers the idea that it could be a totally ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.