Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but finding them is incredibly difficult. Unlike ...

Learn how ALMA observations revealed unusually high levels of methanol in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and what the molecule’s chemistry may reveal about how icy bodies form around other stars.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have detected the “strongest evidence yet” that life exists outside our solar system. Scientists at the University of Cambridge found signs of ...

Discovery: On July 2, 2025, astronomers confirmed Comet 3I/ATLAS, marking only the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected passing through our Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and ...

Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have detected a strange distortion that could point to an unknown planet lurking far beyond Neptune.

Sub-Neptune exoplanets tend to be much closer to their host star than Earth is to the Sun and are thought to have atmospheres made of steam over layers of an exotic phase of water that behaves like ...