Resting on my lap is the newly published National Geographic book Infinite Cosmos – a tribute to two decades ... It also helped to decode the chemical compositions of the exoplanet atmosphere in ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...

We have never directly detected volcanic activity outside our solar system, in part because current telescopes aren’t powerful enough to take images of exoplanets’ surfaces. We might be able ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of diamond, and another may rain molten iron. However, not all exoplanets ...

And astonishingly, it's managed to drag its exoplanet along, as the poor world hangs on for dear life. "We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s ...

A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) satellite ...

National Geographic was founded in 1888 by a group of visionaries who embodied an era of exploration, discovery, invention, and change. With offices around the world and headquarters in Washington ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...