Biologists identified a series of "hard steps" on the journey from abiogenesis - that life evolved naturally from non-living matter…
NASA continues to progress with the development of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), the next-generation observatory with a…
The appearance of the Interstellar Objects (ISOs) Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of…
The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been…
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers have turned…
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets - almost half of…
The study of exoplanets is challenging enough with the immense distances and glare from the host start but astronomers have…
The exoplanet census continues to grow. Currently, 5,819 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,346 star systems, while thousands more await…
One of the more daunting questions related to astrobiology—the search for life in the cosmos—concerns the nature of life itself.…
If the modern age of astronomy could be summarized in a few words, it would probably be "the age of…