The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

A bold new proposal from a team of astrophysicists, led by Heidi Newberg from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, suggests that ...

A new study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences offers a simpler solution: change the shape of the ...

It’s not certain yet, but it looks like the hopes invested in the TRAPPIST-1 system to house a habitable planet might not be ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a ...

Earth is the only planet known to host life. All living systems depend heavily on liquid water. While single-celled life appeared early, complex life took billions. Human existence is tiny compared to ...

Using powerful infrared sensors, Webb observed TRAPPIST-1 e as it transited its host star, analysing starlight filtering ...

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." To resolve nearby Earth-like ...

A new study finds a rectangular mirror design could uncover 25+ habitable exoplanets in just 3.5 years using current technology.