Recent research has raised the tantalizing prospect that our Solar System, in which we thought we were alone, may be dotted ...
Despite its extreme conditions, featuring surface temperatures that can melt lead, volcanoes that spew lava, and thick clouds ...
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored as much water as Earth. Today, almost all of it has disappeared. A new study may help to explain why.
Recent excitement about the discovery of signs of alien life on a distant planet could be misplaced – or at least early, ...
Take, for instance, the 2020 announcement that scientists had found evidence of phosphine on Venus—and that, as far as they could tell, only life could ... a yes or no to the “aliens?” ...
If we discover alien life, what will it look like? We have no way of knowing ... that circle dim red stars smaller than our sun, a new study suggests. The latest cataloging effort is in part ...
Purple bacteria that thrive in low-energy red or infrared light with a simpler method of photosynthesis could cover another ...
A NASA solar sail mission meant to test new space travel materials in Earth's orbit is scheduled to lift off no sooner than April ... worthy in the search for alien life on Jupiter’s moon ...
While fields, forests and jungles have made green the color most associated with surface life on Earth, that may not be the case for other planets, according to a new study from researchers at ...