Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...

Discover how NASA’s James Webb Telescope unveiled GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet possibly rich in water vapour and hidden beneath ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The formations, which span an area as large as Texas, can be seen in images taken by NASA and European Space ... the planet’s northern and southern hemispheres: erosion caused by water 4 billion ...

"The extreme weather conditions do not allow for the planet to have liquid water, which is the basis of habitability as we know it," Vincent said.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...