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A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought.
A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...
Mars may be dry, dusty, and far from hospitable today, but new research suggests it once shared more in common with Earth ...
Earth’s geological evolution is aslow but constant process, with tectonic movements driving significant changes over millions ...
Scientists have found a nearby planet that appears to be teeming with life, and now Earth's most advanced computer programs revealed what it could look like. The planet, known by astronomers as K2 ...
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals mega auroras on Jupiter, hundreds of times brighter than Earth's, triggered by ...
This shift towards complexity, not assuming other planets work like Earth, is most interesting to Moeckel. “When we look at these planets, we normally think, OK, what’s the climate doing? And now ...
The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...