Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, highlights the link between recent discoveries of numerous exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life.

This episode of today in engineering covers 1. New Exoplanet Found Through AI 2. New Robotic Hand 3. Method to See Through Walls 4. Parker Solar Probe

This video is answering the question of do stars orbit planets.

Extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, are planets that orbit stars other than our sun. Astronomers like Dr. William Welsh at San Diego State University primarily use two methods to detect these distant planets: Doppler and Transit methods....

Harvard scientists says origin of first ever interstellar object detected in our solar system remains unknown.

NASA has renamed its next-generation Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope after Nancy Roman, the agency’s first chief astronomer known as the Mother of Hubble.

There is no minimum age for scientific discovery. Young scientists ask questions about topics that have puzzled humans for hundreds of years. This audio story introduces a high school senior who uses math to help astronomers search for...

In this week's episode, we learn how AI uncovers insights into cancer, how loops give toughness to spider silk, a newly released database of stars and finally, we investigate a novel water testing technique. Check it out! Provided by the...

It seems counterintuitive, but ESA's newest space telescope, CHEOPS, is designed to take blurry images of stars. But this helps astronomers to understand more about orbiting exoplanets than a clear image would. Here's why!

A superhero team of space telescopes has been working tirelessly to discover exoplanets and unveil their secrets. Now, a new superhero joins the team—the James Webb Space Telescope. What will it find? Over the past few decades, a team of...

NASA's new planet-hunting satellite will seek out new Earth-like worlds over the next two years. Called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, the satellite searches for planets which transit in front of a star, causing a dip in its...

The TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system has seven earth-like planets and is only 39 lightyears away! I am joined by Professor Adam Burgasser and Dr. Katherine Deck, both astrophysicists on the Nature paper to discuss the discovery of this...

A conversation with one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Natalie Batalha, the Kepler mission project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

Scientists have found two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf around 120 light-years from Earth, including a “super-Earth,” according to research published in Astronomy & Astrophysics

A conversation with Rus Belikov and Eduardo Bendek, senior research scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, working on next generation technology to directly image planets beyond the solar system.

NASA’s got big plans to send people to the Moon, and then on to Mars. What are we going to do at the Moon?

Hot super-Earths are fiery rocky planets orbiting so close to their suns that their surface is heated to lava oceans.

Since the early 1990's, astronomers have known that extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," orbit stars light-years beyond our own solar system. Although most exoplanets are too distant to be directly imaged, detailed studies have been made...

A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on August 17, 2017.

This video explores five fun facts about Exoplanets.

The thing to remember here is that finding life on another planet tells us one of very two things...and we will be able to figure out which thing pretty quickly. Either: 1. The life will contain clear signals that it is related to life...

The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But was it always that way? Could Venus...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission,...

Scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, formerly known as WFIRST, will function as Hubble’s wide-eyed cousin. While just as sensitive as Hubble's cameras, the Roman Space Telescope's 300-megapixel...