On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, TOI-2431 b, on a death spiral. The planet orbits its star in just five hours and 22 minutes, making it an exoplanet with one of the shortest orbit ...

The James Webb Space telescope has given us some pretty unbelievable photos, showing us the faces of incredible objects in ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet appears to be almost twice as wide as our planet, and ...

Scientists discover that large amounts of nitrogen could be hidden in the Earth's metallic core, which would solve a ...

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable ...

The chemical basis of the lichen’s resistance lies in its UV-opaque cortex, a structural layer enriched with phenolic lichen ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...