The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the solar system. But now scientists think they’ve uncovered ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure diabetes and more.

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

In “Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7),” SETI Institute astronomers Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro highlight two rare and compelling discoveries and the crucial role of citizen scientists ...

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...