"Let's count down 11 recently discovered Earth-like planets! When Earth is no longer habitable, where could humans go? These ...

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The dream of traversing the depths of space and planting the seed of human civilization on another planet has existed for generations.

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Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades - and now scientists have shown why.Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere ...

Join us this week as Mike and Dr. Daylan discuss sub-neptunes.

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...