Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Today, Mars is known as the red planet, for its rust-colored desert landscape. Once upon a time, Mars was a very different ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...

A Harvard University astrophysicist has sparked a furious debate by warning he cannot rule out that extraterrestrials are ...