Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. What if humanity's search ...

The more exoplanets we find and study, the closer we get to figuring out if life exists somewhere else in the universe. But finding exoplanets is a tricky business. That's why NASA engineers are ...

If finding exoplanets around our nearest stellar neighbor were easy, astronomers would have mapped Alpha Centauri’s planetary system long ago. Instead, the search has required a blend of technical ...

Do you know how NASA finds exoplanets? Check out this simple demo using lego, a light meter and a graph to see how they do it. For more FREE teacher resources from the Smithsonian’s National Air and ...