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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.

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 ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

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

NASA has confirmed the existence of an ambipolar electric field in Earth's atmosphere, a force that has been theorised for ...

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

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

Explore the latest find from NASA’s Curiosity rover and what it reveals about organic matter beyond our planet.