Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

26, 2025 — New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

Gravitational Manipulation: The type of technology necessary for lifting multiple colonies from Earth's surface can lead to irrevocable changes in the planet's core. Consequently, this gravitational ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it takes around 8 minutes to reach our planet. Past missions from Earth to the Red Planet ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the ... These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common ...