"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 ...
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 ...
This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...
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.
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 ...
Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...
Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.
Scientists estimate a 27% chance of intelligent alien life beyond our galaxy using a new model. The research integrates the ...