In a Universe that's more than 13 billion years old and home to hundreds of billions of stars, one question still haunts humanity: Why haven't we found life beyond Earth?

Seems unintuitive, but the mounting list of lifeless planets might be exactly what scientists need to figure out how common ...

Named for Nancy Grace Roman, who served as NASA's first chief astronomer, it will be located approximately 1.5 million ...

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

Even if no planets show signs of life, that can teach us a lot. By getting zero signals, scientists can still estimate how ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

In the scientific exploration of the universe, the absence of a sought-after phenomenon can paradoxically become a valuable ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...