The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found that a distant world discovered several years ago could be an "eyeball" ...

JUICE successfully identified water and the building blocks of life in Earth's atmosphere. In doing so, the probe headed for ...

What’s more, this watery orb, almost twice as large as Earth, may be our best shot at finding habitable conditions ... temperate planets, adding to the list that begins with LHS 1140 b. But for now, ...

Many of these life-forms do have biorhythms, synchronised to stimuli other than light. Naked mole rats spend their entire ...

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission ... If humanity doesn’t manage to completely destroy the planet for ourselves before our sun begins to grow noticeably warmer ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is set to explore one of the most promising spots to look for life in the solar system: Jupiter ...

A tidally locked planet may seem exotic, but most potentially habitable planets are probably like this. Our closest planetary neighbor, Proxima Centauri b (located in the Alpha Centauri system ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don't have a day and night cycle. It's hard to imagine, but there are organisms living in ...

Waterworld: up to 50% of the atmosphere of K2-18b may be composed of water Astronomers have for the first time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of ...

may require a larger telescope to achieve the same goals. HWO is an exciting mission and will provide incredible insights into the prevalence of habitable planets. As we learn more about the ...

“The star would be like the eye of the storm,” said Jess Speedie ... Gravitationally unstable disks might be the wombs of planets too enormous and distant from their host stars to be explained ...