What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique ...

Mankind began listening for signals from space over 100 years ago, searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. One captured ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

HELSINKI — China is charting a long-term deep space strategy centered on planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial life, according to a newly revealed mission roadmap.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable zone," the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water. But ...

Did life on Venus die or hide? NASA's Venus Life Equation retools the Drake Equation to explore past oceans, microbial ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes — planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of ...

GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...

Their latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the way a planetary body fractures is no random accident, and their findings could offer ...