The curious minds at What If explore what it would mean for life on Earth if every planet in our solar system were habitable.

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

It suggests that Venus may be more geologically active than previously believed and may help scientists understand why Earth became a habitable planet and Venus did not. Decades-old radar data ...

That detection came from the SPECULOOS project (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars), which is based at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. These two brown dwarfs are almost ...

“It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet,” the professor explained. He added that the discovery was “as big as it gets” for scientist ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

“This is a transformational moment in the search for life beyond the solar system, where we have demonstrated that it is possible to detect biosignatures in potentially habitable planets with ...

“It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet,” the professor explained. He added that the discovery was “as big as it gets” for scientist ...

Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler has revealed four locations to which he will not return any time soon. In a blog titled “I’m Not Going There Anymore”, the 78-year-old adventurer puts ...

He theorised Nasa was staying tight-lipped to boost interest in its hopes of sending humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s. DeGregorio, an honorary research fellow at Buckingham Centre for ...

May 12, 2025 • Robots have been a thing for a long time, but they've never quite met expectations. While AI has changed the game for chatbots, it's not quite so clear for robots. NPR science ...