The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. During the 1240s, ...

Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather than the ...

A new SwRI-led paper highlights the scientific progress made in understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets, including the effects of late large impacts on pre-existing modes of tectonics. For ...

Artistic concept of the PDS 70 disk. JWST observations detected water in the inner disk, where normally terrestrial planets form. Two gas giant planets carved a wide gap in the disk made of gas and ...

Ow - that hurts! Despite an optimistic forecast, the sky was overcast in the Duluth, Minn. region for this morning's lunar eclipse. At 6 a.m. the moon shined brightly enough through thin clouds to ...

Astronomers have found a debris disk around a sun-like star that may be forming or has formed its terrestrial planets. The disk – a probable analog to our asteroid belt – may have begun a solar-system ...

On Tuesday, the European Southern Observatory released a new image that could advance our fundamental understanding of how brand new planets are formed. Located over 5000 light-years away in the ...

The “Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery” tells the stories of how exploration has revealed that the solar system is filled with amazingly diverse places that transform people’s ...

Best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence of carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere ...