Astrobiology

Early-career Graduate Students Host An Exclusive, NASA-funded Astrobiology Conference

AbGradCon 2026 brought an international group of graduate students studying astrobiology, planetary science and astronomy to ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope Reveals a Giant Alien Planet That’s Not Quite Round

Weather maps of distant planets are a step closer after the James Webb Space Telescope distinguished hotter and cooler ...
Astrobiology

ExoPAG 35 – Early Career Talks Invitation

NASA’s Exoplanet Program Analysis Group’s Executive Committee (ExoPAG EC) and NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) ...
Scientific American

Amateur astronomer harnesses AI to find a possible hidden exoplanet

Evidence for the possible super-Earth has been lurking for years in NASA data. Pavel Rabtsevich found it—with a little help ...

Trailblazing technique uncovers real shape of scorching-hot exoplanet atmospheres

Until now, the alien white-hot worlds of exoplanets have been depicted as circular, but new research has revealed the true ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers May Have Directly Glimpsed an Exoplanet’s Magnetic Field for the First Time, Building Hope of Peering Deeper Into Faraway Worlds

From our corner of the big and complicated universe, it can be difficult to see worlds beyond the solar system in detail. Lots of fuzz can get in the way of observing faraway exoplanets: Earth’s ...
Space.com

Worlds collide! James Webb Space Telescope investigates what happens when planets crash together

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers are investigating turbulent planetary systems in which worlds violently collide. This investigation could shed light on the hypothetical ...
CNN

Radio signal detected for the first time from a planet outside our solar system

Astronomers say they have directly detected the first-ever radio emission from a planet outside the solar system. The signal, however, is evidence of a colossal magnetic field — not intelligent life. ...
Scientific American magazine

Can we detect rainbows on alien worlds?

In some ways, finding exoplanets is amazingly easy. It doesn’t necessarily take a huge telescope and sophisticated equipment to detect these alien worlds. Characterizing them, however—getting detailed ...
techtimes

NASA Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Captures First Starlight in Orbit

One month after leaving Earth, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has done something no observatory has ever done in orbit: it used an active, shape-shifting mirror system to capture genuine ...
The Conversation

Alien life? Why the possibility of exoplanet LHS 1140b emitting helium gas is so exciting

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. LHS 1140b orbits a faint, red star within the constellation of Cetus — named after a ...
Futurism

Harvard Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming Directly From Planet Outside the Solar System

So far, astronomers have confirmed over 6,300 exoplanets circling a host star beyond our solar system. They range from small, rocky worlds to enormous orbs of gas like our own Jupiter or Saturn. Some, ...