New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet which is estimated to be 6 percent larger than Earth. Named HD 137010 b, the planet is located about 146 light-away from Earth ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...