In the search for alien life, one Cornell researcher says color may be a telltale sign of biosignatures on far-off exoplanets ...

The rocket went vertical on the launch pad the night of Oct. 29 for an upcoming test fire ahead of the rocket’s second ...

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

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

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

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

Paulette LeBlanc, president of the Friends of the Safford City-Graham County Library, beamed into the library on Oct. 28 to hear author David Baron's talk about the Martian craze that ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

This week's episode of SpaceBeat includes 1950s UFO evidence over nuclear test sites, Blue Origin’s New Glenn prep, the first ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...