Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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NASA has shared a stunning views of drifting clouds on Mars captured by the Curiosity rover. The iridescent clouds look like ...

In fiction, The Twilight Zone is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, between the ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...