A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

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Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even ...

A new study takes a close look at TRAPPIST-1, a little star roughly 40 light-years from our sun that hosts seven Earth-sized planets.

Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

These missions will focus on major frontiers such as the origins of the universe, the origin of space weather, and the start of life, officials said at a press conference held on Monday about the ...