With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

"Life can be understood as complexity, and water has a wide range of properties that enable this complexity." Scientists have developed a better model to understand "steam worlds," which are planets ...

"TRAPPIST-1e has long been considered one of the best habitable zone planets to search for an atmosphere." Astronomers have investigated the atmosphere and potential habitability of a famous ...

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of the JWST. The powerful space telescope has the ability to gather infrared ...

Large exoplanets are more easily detected than small ones. It's axiomatic. While large planets block out more starlight during transits, small planets block out much less, letting them hide in the ...

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper ...

Starshade-based methods, both for in-space observatories like the Habitable Worlds Observer or ground-based observatories, have the potential to increase our observational capability without launching ...

Bill Belichick and UNC football are coming to Hulu. Announced on Sunday, Aug. 24 in a team meeting by Belichick, the Tar Heels and their six-time Super Bowl-winning coach will be featured in a ...

There are many films that live in notoriety for their gore, sexual violence, or explicit acts of human depravity. Cannibal Holocaust landed its director in court for taping what was at the time ...

Over six years later, the case of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged attack is once again in the news, thanks to the new Netflix documentary, The Truth About Jussie Smollett?, which began ...