Some stars erupt with 'superflares' 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. Scientists may now know why.
Instead of using chlorophyll, the green organelle that most plants have today used for photosynthesis, purple bacteria uses ...
Eagle-eyed, armchair astronomers have almost certainly made a number of thrilling discoveries, including two possible Jupiter ...
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope has provided astronomers with an unprecedented glimpse of a distant exoplanet, shedding ...
Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...
The atmosphere of a planet is also influenced by its interior ... search for life elsewhere in the universe is that we’ll never have in situ data for an exoplanet. We aren’t going there, landing, or ...
The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope ...
Venus provides invaluable insights into the search for life on other planets, according to a new study from UC Riverside.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is poised to investigate seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 star, 40 light ...
Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital lessons about the potential for life on other planets, ...
Studying and eventually understanding our planet Venus remains our best hope for characterizing earth-mass planets circling ...
From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to ...