NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

As David Attenborough reflects in his new documentary Ocean, “After living for nearly 100 years on this planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea”. We ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A conversation with Peter Schlosser, vice president and vice provost of Global Futures at Arizona State University ...

NASA’s MAVEN finally sees sputtering—an escape process that stripped Mars of its atmosphere and ancient water.

THERE are planets beyond our own that could be hiding untouched paradises.  Exoplanet LHS 1140 b is just one of them – and ...