NASA has made a groundbreaking discovery: planets that may be more habitable than Earth. These newly identified worlds, found using advanced space exploration techniques, possess conditions that could ...

Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures ...

New NASA research suggests that Saturn’s moon Titan could naturally produce bubble-like compartments known as ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

We have long had a basic interest in knowing if there is life beyond our planet and how that life would function. It’s ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has long been a point of contention for the agency, but now someone might have a plan to ...

Plunge into the shallows off the Florida Keys, Hawaiʻi or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and you are likely to meet a ...

Fifty years ago, “Jaws” unlocked dread in millions about man-eating sharks. This summer, that fear may be somewhat reduced as ...