Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

A group of specialists emphasizes the urgent need for in-depth studies into vaginal microorganisms and their impact on health ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the atmospheric origin of exoplanet GJ 1214 b and its results challenges ...

A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...