By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

When a star is born, it doesn’t emerge in isolation. Instead, it forms inside a large, chaotic cloud of gas and dust. Around it, a flat disk of spinning material takes shape. This protoplanetary disk ...

Passionate about Mars, the professor at Arizona State University has been part of the missions of the legendary robots that NASA has sent to the red planet since the 90s, such as 'Curiosity,' 'Spirit, ...

Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously ...

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, ...