The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...

The planet, known as GJ 251c, orbits a red dwarf star 18.2 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. The ...

Astronomers have discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky super-Earth just 20 light-years away, one of the most promising nearby worlds ...

The planet orbits a faint red dwarf star and sits in its habitable zone, where liquid water could exist if an atmosphere is ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is experiencing an accelerated rate of atmospheric escape, leading to a faster loss of gases into space than previously observed. This revelation, founded on recent scientific ...

JWST observations of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d reveal a lack of a substantial, Earth-like atmosphere, as indicated by a "flat" spectral signature lacking typical atmospheric molecule fingerprints (e.g., ...

A newly discovered planet sits in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are right for liquid water if the ...

Astronomers have identified GJ 251 c, a super-Earth exoplanet just 18 light-years away, orbiting within its star's habitable ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, we’ve been finding tons of “exoplanets”—planets orbiting faraway stars. One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for ...