Recently, the astronomical community has made an exciting discovery: water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of ...

Astronomers utilized data from the Gemini South telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) from NASA to detect silane (SiH₄) in the atmosphere of "The Accident." This simple molecule ...

University of Bristol astrophysicists are helping shed new light on an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away where liquid ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a star system that comprises of seven Earth sized planets, out of which three are in the Goldilocks zone.

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth's atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a ...

A team of researchers has identified a possible atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet. The researchers, from the University of St Andrews, have today published two separate papers on planet TRAPPIST ...

Recent studies suggest that the Moon, now a barren world with a negligible atmosphere, may once have had an atmosphere akin to Earth’s. This intriguing possibility is based on new research analyzing ...

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

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

New research reveals where the nearest alien civilization may exist, which could be far older than intelligent life on Earth.

JWST observations of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d reveal a lack of a substantial, Earth-like atmosphere, as indicated by a "flat" spectral signature lacking typical atmospheric molecule fingerprints (e.g., ...