Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...
The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is statistics. While it might not be as glamorous as directly imaging a ...
Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...
Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
Astronomers have been poring over last week's claim of the detection of life-associated gases in the atmosphere of a distant planet named K2-18b — "the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a ...
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
Scientists are debating whether data from the James Webb Space Telescope is really pointing to biosignature gases in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b. (Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) | NASA-GSFC) ...