The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

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NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

New research from Southwest Research Institute reveals that violent late-stage planetary collisions shaped Earth’s water, ...

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

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“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...