THE famously desolate Mars landscape could be scattered with trees to the untrained eye, according to a recently shared Nasa ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

The planet, which astronomers believe is orbiting a young red dwarf star approximately 34 light years away, has been dubbed ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

There is a classification of planets out there in the cosmos colloquially referred to by astronomers as Eyeball Planets. The ...

The eccentric orbit of planet HD 20794 d sends this world swooping through a skewed swath of its star’s habitable zone. (Dumusque et al. 2025) Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) ...

There is a classification of planets out there in the cosmos colloquially referred to by astronomers as Eyeball Planets. The moniker comes from their appearance which look like, well, eyeballs ...

Some 48 light-years away, in the constellation Cetus, lies an ice-covered planet straight out of Star Wars central casting. One hemisphere always faces the host star, creating a small melted ocean on ...

Discovered in 2017, some 48 light-years away, exoplanet LHS 1140 b was originally thought to be a mini-Neptune. But new research suggests that it’s actually a rocky super-Earth with possibly ...

The universe has no shortage of strange exoplanets. TOI-1798 c, for example, experiences an entire year in less than half an Earth day, WASP-130 b is distorted into the shape of a rugby ball, and a ...