Claims of a biosignature gas detection—a sign of extraterrestrial life—on an exoplanet by the Webb telescope were premature, ...
Recent research has raised the tantalizing prospect that our Solar System, in which we thought we were alone, may be dotted ...
Even though Venus and Earth are so-called sister planets, they're as different as heaven and hell. Earth is a natural ...
From planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places ...
Recent research finds claims of biosignature gas detection were premature. Recent reports of NASA’s James Webb Space ...
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored as much water as Earth. Today, almost all of it has disappeared. A new study may help to explain why. Planetary scientists at the University of ...
Researchers have unravelled the mystery of Venus, Earth’s blistering and inhospitable counterpart, shedding light on how it transformed into a dry wasteland. This groundbreaking study bridges a signif ...
The search for life beyond Earth has driven seekers to scout all sorts of potential habitats — not just on the growing list of known Earth-like exoplanets, but in other places within our own ...
Scientists have broken their silence on a recent report that a NASA telescope found signs of alien life. Last September, excitement grew surrounding a planet called K2-18b, a world around 125 ...
(Nanowerk News) Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth’s scalding and uninhabitable neighbor, became so dry. The new study fills in a big gap in ...
Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines with an electron, producing speedy H atoms (orange) that use CO molecules ...