Connecting Polarization To Exoplanet Yield Calculations For Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) -...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to enable the detection and characterization of Earth-like planets

JWST Finds Exoplanets Choked by Diesel Smog

It’s 2134, and humanity has finally embraced green technologies while ridding the Earth of harmful fossil-burning technologies, most notably gasoline, wood, coal, and oil. As a result, soot has been...

Why Consciousness Might Not Belong to Us Alone

We have spent centuries being knocked off our pedestal. Earth isn't the centre of the Solar System, the Sun isn't the centre of the Galaxy, and we are not the point around which everything else...

SpaceX goes public with a mind-bogglingly historic IPO today. The space industry may never be the...

NASA Study Challenges Theories on Where the Ingredients for Life Came From

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become habitable. They also suggest a new role for...

Reading the Galaxy's Past

Every galaxy you've ever seen in a photograph is hiding something. Beyond the glowing disc of stars and gas that the camera captures lies a vast, ghostly outer region called a halo, too faint to see...

Analysis Of The Young Disk Around WRAY 15-1880: Does It Contain A Primitive Planetary System? -...

Observations of (giant) planets accreting material within their natal environment are crucial to constrain models for their formation.

Finding Patterns in Planets: Researchers Explore the Demographics of Alien Worlds in K2 Data -...

Our galaxy is jam-packed with planets, with thousands already discovered and millions more expected to eventually come into view.

Aliens might exist. But there are three reasons why they’re not visiting us

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet.

Finding Patterns in Planets: Researchers Explore the Demographics of Alien Worlds in K2 Data -...

Our galaxy is jam-packed with planets, with thousands already discovered and millions more expected to eventually come into view.

Assessing Ariel's Capabilities To Observe Free-floating Brown Dwarfs - Astrobiology

The primary goal of the Ariel space telescope is to conduct the biggest spectroscopic survey of transiting exoplanets to characterize their atmospheres and weather.

NASA is building a new space telescope to search for life on nearby planets. What would it see on...

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the atmosphere of a distant ancient Earth.