How to spot colorful life on icy exoplanets
In recent decades, astronomers have discovered more than 5000 planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, with nearly 9000 more…
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In recent decades, astronomers have discovered more than 5000 planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, with nearly 9000 more…
Scientists found that a methylated gas produced by life as a waste product of detoxification could serve as a remotely observable sign of…
Scientists used computer models to determine how likely a planet is to be habitable by its age, size, and distance from its sun.
A carbonaceous meteorite that fell in Costa Rica holds organic compounds that are preserved from the earliest stages of our solar system,…
An observational technique called ‘beam-forming’ detects exoplanetary radio emissions that allow researchers to calculate exoplanets’…
A mysterious cold gas shooting out of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has left scientists puzzled.
Maybe you didn't have a stellar childhood, but stars definitely did. (Get it?) Learn about a major research project that investigated one…
The Cassini spacecraft revealed the atmosphere of Saturn has large regions that don’t cycle to the poles and that the atmosphere is filled…
Scientists from the University of Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, as well as the Icahn School of Medicine at…
On a clear night you might easily see Jupiter, Mars or other planets from our solar system. This is how astronomers from thousands of years…