The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which have been observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST has ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

A new era in space research is on the horizon, with the launch of the Mauve space telescope, the world’s first commercial ...

NASA officials respond to reports claiming an exoplanet-hunting balloon crashed in Texas, with the project’s lead scientist explaining what really happened.

(CNN) — Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James ...