Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

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.

Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Our Earth’s atmosphere was not always the safe haven it is today. New research, informed by ancient ocean fossils, provides a glimpse into a time when our planet’s atmosphere was inhospitable and ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Clues to our planet’s dramatic past are in the layers of rocks we might overlook. A great guide shows why they deserve our ...

JWST confirms GJ 1132 b lacks an atmosphere. This challenges the habitability of planets around M-dwarfs. Astronomers often encounter conflicting results when investigating cosmic questions. This is a ...