Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

This not-so-little piece of equipment could change astronomy forever. And it could be about to find alien life. Maybe in a ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were pointing to a planet that orbits a star much like our own, in a region where ...