NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for future observatories.

The exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be completely covered in ice (left) or may be an ice world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (center). The planet is roughly 1.7 times the size of ...

An exoplanet with some key ingredients to support life may be lurking closer than we thought. Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what ...

NASA announced the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept.

One of NASA's latest discoveries could change the definition of what planetary objects aside from Earth will be considered "potentially habitable." Researchers have found that Saturn's tiny, frozen ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple star system, JWST has just discerned the presence of a giant exoplanet ...

In the search for potentially habitable worlds, astronomers have focused on Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars. These rocky worlds have a similar radius and mass to Earth and must be warm ...