"Let's count down 11 recently discovered Earth-like planets! When Earth is no longer habitable, where could humans go? These ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goe ...
Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...
An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...
The HBO prequel fills in the vast universe of “Dune”— but has our own galaxy in mind, too.
Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...
This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, ...