NASA researchers have discovered evidence of tectonic activity on Venus by re-examining decades-old radar data. The findings ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

(Web Desk) - A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet has been found outside of our solar system and it could have the right conditions to ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about 110 light-years from Earth. Story: [Water Vapor Detected in Atmosphere of an ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...