Imagine life on Earth 2.0 and how it could differ from our own planet. In SNAP appeal, Trump admin says it faces more harm ...

Newly discovered multi-wavelength view of a stellar eruption on a young Sun-like star is changing how we think about life's ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

The Kepler Mission, a NASA Discovery mission launched on March 6, 2009, was the first space mission dedicated to the search for Earth-sized and smaller planets in the habitable zone of other stars in ...

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Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Transitioning to green energy requires more sustainable rare earth element (REE) ...

Although nearly 6,000 exoplanets are currently known, in most cases, our knowledge is limited to a handful of the planet’s orbital characteristics and bulk properties such as radius and mass. The ...

Somewhere between the gas giants and the terrestrial Earth-like worlds that populate our galaxy lies a twilight zone, a region where planets defy easy classification. It is a dimension between gaseous ...

By combining these two techniques, scientists gain insights into the nature of exoplanets. If a planet has twice the mass of Earth but the same volume, for example, it must be very dense and thus ...