A: The Extremely Large ... observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence of potential life on exoplanets and peer back in time ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

The team behind this research reached this conclusion by studying 20 extrasolar planets or "exoplanets" as they ... parent stars using the Hubble Space Telescope. This revealed that starlight ...

This is a worrying development because if these variations in stellar brightness aren't accounted for, scientists could get a range of things about exoplanets ... estimate how large the planet ...

High winds, hundreds of lightyears away! Dan Smith shows just how fast one planet's jet stream is moving. 🪐💨 ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life.

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery ... said that the Prime telescope strengthens the country’s role in the knowledge economy, contributing to the big data revolution ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the ...