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 ...

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

What if Earth isn’t the most habitable planet in the universe? In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a group of “superhabitable” exoplanets,worlds that may offer even better ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

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

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

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

The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

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

In the two-thousands, the philosopher of science Peter Godfrey-Smith began snorkelling off the coast of his native Sydney, ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...