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.

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than previously thought. A study using a 3D global climate model found that exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts considers ... and I haven’t been able to share that story yet.” Roberts’ book comes at a time when Black history is being criminalized.

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 ...

If the discovery is confirmed, this will be the fastest extrasolar planet, "exoplanet," system ever seen. "We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance ...

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 ...

This result, drawing on more than two decades of observations, opens a window to future studies of Earth-like exoplanets that may have conditions suitable for life. Dr. Cretignier first identified ...

Assam Police have registered a case against Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh under multiple sections of the BNS and UAPA, following the Assam Cabinet's decision. The case involves allegations ...

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