NASA discovered five exoplanets orbiting stars in under 24 hours, challenging planetary models and providing insights into ...
A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...
Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...
An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.
Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...
The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...
A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...
If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
If an alien civilization has technology similar to ours, could it detect life on Earth? Answering this will help our own ...