"More crucially, this planet resides within the habitable zone of its host star, the region around a star where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist. It orbits around its host star ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The quest for life beyond Earth has centered for decades on rocky, Earth-like planets, but a new class of enigmatic worlds ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

The researches say that the Hycean Habitable Zone (HHZ), when compared to the terrestrial habitable zone, may include smaller ...

I am an astrophysicist and astrobiologist with over 20 years of experience studying extrasolar planets ... Kepler 186 sits in a habitable zone similar to Earth, though it orbits an M1 dwarf star. ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

As Earth’s magnetic field has risen, so have the conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant planets.

Exciting new research proposes a practical, phased plan to terraform Mars—starting with warming the planet and seeding it with life, potentially making it habitable within centuries. Mars , once rich ...

There’s always going to be a way to make something abiotically.” With these words, chemist Eleanor Browne of the University of Colorado Boulder captured the humility accompanying one of the most ...