Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Called methyl halides, the gases comprise a methyl group ... the largest telescope currently in space. Instead, JWST would have to aim for larger exoplanets orbiting small red stars, with deep global ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

The Australian research could lead to new insights about which suns could support life on distant worlds. Find out more.