By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission focused on studying changes in the exosphere, the Earth’s outermost ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely changed the way humanity views the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

What if we could get clean electricity more cheaply and protect the environment at the same time? A team of researchers in ...

Fourth Power has raised $20 million to build a demonstration version of its thermal batteries, which ultimately could store ...

The waterways already irrigate much of the state’s crops, but now they will also cool the solar panels, just by nature of ...

Not every industrial roof can host solar panels. Weight restrictions, shading, and complex layouts often leave companies with ...

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Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...