A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

NASA’s quantum computer research helps us learn more about space. Quantum algorithms can solve hard problems and help with ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

The upgraded system to manage employee training launches May 13 and will allow for a smoother user experience Starting May 13, Duke staff and faculty who log onto the Duke Learning Management System ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

The James Webb space telescope’s deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

The ocean covers most of Earth and may exist beyond it—scientists now suspect a distant exoplanet could be entirely covered ...