In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.

A new study upends that belief, proposing that human evolution was merely a natural planetary process that can and likely has occurred on other Earth-like planets. It’s a common belief among ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

The team's paper is a collaboration between physicists and geobiologists, each learning from each other's fields to develop a nuanced picture of how life evolves on a planet like Earth.