Using high-resolution spectroscopy, astronomers analyzed how starlight filters through different layers of the exoplanet’s ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

A groundbreaking telescope might soon detect signs of extraterrestrial life. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently ...

To detect exoplanets, SALT, in turn, uses high resolution spectroscopy operating at visible wavelengths (to which the human eye is sensitive) to look for a telltale ‘wobble’ induced by a ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b. Explore the science behind ...