In the early chaos of planetary formation, before crusts cooled or atmospheres settled, water might already have been ...

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

A groundbreaking study published inGeophysical Research Letters takes us closer to understanding Mars’ wind dynamics and how ...

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the ...

A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun. The study, published today in the ...

The quest continues to learn more about the TRAPPIST-1 system, seven roughly Earth-sized planets orbiting a dwarf star about 39 light-years away. Whether life could exist on these planets is a matter ...

When a planet transits in front of its parent star, some of the light is not only blocked, but if an atmosphere is present, filters through it, creating absorption or emission lines that a ...

Advancements in technology are allowing researchers to determine the extent to which climate change contributed to some ...