Astronomers have announced the discovery of a nearby super Earth that could potentially support alien life — drawing comparisons to theories surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, which some ...

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New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

At magnitude 9.5, the Ghost’s Goblet is visible in binoculars and even more striking through a telescope, where its triangular core appears as the “cup” of a ghostly goblet. Astronomy contributor ...

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb outlines nine "anomalies" that he says support his hypothesis that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2025 with 62 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.