Learn about HD 137010 b, a cold Earth‑sized planet candidate that sits near the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone.

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire used a powerful AI system to scan decades of scientific research and uncover ...

The largest gas giants in our galaxy blur the line between planets and brown dwarfs. How do these very large gas giants form?

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

A single clear image can rewire the visual brain, making later recognition faster without relying on memory systems.

Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) recently detected the presence of ammonia — a nitrogen-bearing compound crucial to supporting life — on ...

On Mars or the Moon, researchers use high-resolution optical cameras to spot “skylights,” which are essentially holes in the ground where a cave roof has collapsed. But on Venus, the thick atmosphere ...