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

(Web Desk) - A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet has been found outside of our solar system and it could have the right conditions to ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

Covering eight unique saltwater habitats, “Ocean” transports readers to coral reefs, the deep, open ocean, kelp forests, the ...

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ ...

NASA shares the moon’s exact distance from Earth and its impact on ocean tides, solar eclipses, and space travel. See how ...

But even if only one in a thousand earth size planets are in the habitable zone just right for life to develop; there must be millions of them. In a new Caltech-led study, researchers learned that ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Saint Teresa of Jesus' incorrupt body, displayed for the first time since 1914, fascinates experts and believers alike with ...