In this animated discussion, Venus, Mars, and Mercury explore the unique characteristics of Earth, focusing on why it is the only planet in the Solar System capable of supporting life. The ...

In the first episode of "The Expanse" (which debuted 10 years ago this weekend), a spaceship makes the biggest meal of ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Today, Long Valley behaves with unnerving politeness—occasional uplift, periodic earthquakes, the subtle exhalation of ...

This launch is important for a few reasons. First, it shows that Blue Origin is serious about competing in the heavy-lift ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected the best evidence ever recorded for an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet.

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...