By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goe ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...

Researchers found that intense UV radiation from the star could burn away the planets’ surface water, leaving them dry and possibly filled with reactive oxygen, which could prevent life from forming.

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades - and now scientists have shown why.Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.

It became the lowest-mass exoplanet ever to be detected through ... gases from deeper within the planet’s atmosphere to the surface. At the moment, AF Leporis b is located about eight times ...