Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

above Earth’s surface. In the very thick lower atmosphere, less than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface, we see a purplish mixture of red and blue lights—the signature colors ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

Green Party peer Natalie Bennett, writing for HuffPost UK, calls for a new way of thinking about the environment.

But the study authors, and other experts, remain cautious and have not declared a definitive discovery of life beyond our ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

This week, learn why experts are divided over an exoplanet, see the first footage of a colossal squid in its deep-sea habitat ...

On a planet known as K2-18b, that orbits a star about 120 light years away from Earth, astronomers have found evidence of dimethyl sulfide, a compound made of sulfur, carbon and hydrogen that is ...

The research, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, detected evidence of compounds in the exoplanet's atmosphere that on Earth are ... of life on another planet.