Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and elsewhere, have discovered two new exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars. The ...

A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, rockiness, and atmospheric energy absorption. Snow alerts issued for 17 states ...

"Mauve will help us understand which stars are likely to be damaging for a life environment." The world's first commercial deep space astronomy telescope is set to search for stars that could host ...

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Hello Games has announced an expedition remix event, bringing back several expeditions, including the Normand SR1 as a ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as circumstantial evidence accumulates and the list of candidates grows, the discovery of ...

The discovery of a possible "super-Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an ...

A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search for extraterrestrial life. It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named ...

FEDERAL HEIGHTS, Colo. — Construction is in full swing at Colorado's largest water park. Water World is working on a major construction project this offseason after retiring its Calpyso Cove area in ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...