The hunt for alien life is about to get a massive boost with the launch of a state-of-the-art space telescope designed to identify exoplanets that could harbour the right conditions for habitability.

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...

"The rate at which the planet is evaporating is utterly cataclysmic, and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet." Using NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

An international team has developed a technique to analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets with unprecedented precision. Using state-of-the-art telescopes, they have been able to detect specific ...