For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert -- essentially, where ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit ...

The UK government and solar industry have jointly published a long-anticipated roadmap detailing how to maximise the ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

The pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

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“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...