"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

NASA’S Pandora mission has moved one step closer to exploring planets which have the potential for alien life. The team ...

The closest of the two, HD 101581 b, has a radius of 0.956 Earth radii and a maximum mass of 3.6 Earth masses. It takes only 4.47 days for the planet to orbit its host star, at only 0.046 AU ...

The science team with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory project, which is aimed at looking for signs of alien life in distant solar systems, suggested that planets considered habitable are ...

More planets may be capable of sustaining life than previously thought as they contain water, according to new research. Scientists have long known that Earth has an iron core surrounded by a ...

The resulting products were ionized; their mass-to-charge ratios were determined based on the time it took for them to reach ...

Complex life here on earth is largely thought to be possible due to the geophysics of earth’s plate tectonics. That is, how our planet’s tectonic plates enable large amounts of carbon dioxide ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain ...