Why This Star-Packed Region of Space Is Likely Devoid of Life
Globular clusters are among the most fascinating celestial phenomena in the galaxy, packing a hideous amount of stars…
Globular clusters are among the most fascinating celestial phenomena in the galaxy, packing a hideous amount of stars…
Using data collected by NASA’s late-great Cassini space probe, scientists have detected traces of complex organic…
Jupiter’s moon Europa features a warm subterranean ocean covered in ice. For years, scientists have wondered if certain…
Astronomer Abel Méndez from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico has put together a…
If you were to fly over Enceladus’ southernmost regions, you’d witness a remarkable sight. With surprising frequency,…
From the moment that seven Earth-sized planets were discovered in orbit around TRAPPIST-1—an ultracool dwarf star…
It’s nothing to lose sleep over—really, I promise—but Earth’s atmosphere is leaking oxygen. Atmospheric oxygen levels…
If you could hop in a time-traveling spacecraft, go back three billion years and land any place in our solar system,…
Since the 1960s, the Drake Equation has been used to predict how many communicative extraterrestrial civilizations…
Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the galaxy. But new research suggests that life within these systems may…
If a massive solar storm struck the Earth today, it could wipe out our technology and hurl us back to the dark ages.…
In a few billion years, the oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will burn up as our sun expands into a red giant.…
A new computer simulation shows that alien worlds with super salty oceans may be even more hospitable to life than…
We have yet to discover a single trace of alien life, despite the extremely high probability that it exists somewhere.…
Jupiter, that blustery ball of noxious gas, is probably the last place that comes to mind when you hear the words “life…
An important chapter in our exploration of the solar system concludes tomorrow, when NASA’s Cassini probe makes its…
There’s a red dwarf about 35 light-years from here that’s spewing powerful, life crushing solar flares into space.…
New data collected by the Curiosity rover shows that Mars was once quite Earth-like, featuring river deltas, lakes, and…
Researchers at the University of Washington’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory have devised a new habitability index for…
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