Scientists say we should look for city lights on other planets in the hunt for alien life. Technosignatures like lights, industrial gases, megastructures, and interstellar craft are key ...

Lights on Mars. Visible auroras were long assumed to be impossible on Mars because its atmosphere is extremely diffuse; the planet lacks a proper planet-wide magnetic field, which has allowed the ...

On Earth, the aurora is caused by the interaction of our planet's magnetic field with incoming electrically-charged particles from the Sun. As these particles make the 93-million-mile (149 million ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

NASA scientists have detected evidence of possible life on a planet over 100 light years away. The space agency's James Webb Space Telescope discovered a molecule called dimethyl sulphide, or DMS ...

Decades of research and the use of advanced telescopes have helped scientists observe the cosmic lights on other planets, which has helped us learn more about Earth's celestial neighbors.

The claim: NASA discovered city lights on planet 7 trillion miles away. An April 14 Facebook video (direct link, ... Other versions of the post were also shared on Facebook.

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

Gliese 12 is one of two red dwarf stars—the other being TRAPPIST-1—within 100 light-years of Earth that play host to Earth-sized planets with relatively minimal stellar radiation.