Opinion

Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is making some wonder: will we have real disclosure soon?

The short answer is that there’s nothing to disclose. But that doesn’t mean we won’t make contact with extraterrestrial life ...
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Discover the newly found planet scientists believe could support alien life

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...
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NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory: 5 key features of the upcoming mission to search for alien life

The mission is still in the early stages of its conception, with contracts given recently to firms.

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
Scientific American

This planet survived the death of its star—and kept its atmosphere

A gas giant planet called WD 1856b, orbiting the burned-out core of a dead, sun-like star. And in a new study published today in Nature, researchers report an even wilder discovery: Not only is WD ...

Nautilus array to track missing exoplanet atmospheres

Exoplanet atmospheres have become prime targets for astrobiologists in the search for life beyond Earth. This is because exoplanet surfaces can't be directly imaged yet, so astronomers must get ...