NASA selects two Colorado companies to develop technology used on its next space telescope, which will search for life on ...

Supporters of planetary colonization argue that becoming a multi-planet species could safeguard us from potentially ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

We all know what a solar eclipse looks like from Earth — but what about from the rings of Saturn, the red skies of Mars, or beneath Jupiter’s swirling clouds? In this video, we travel across the solar ...

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...

Most pieces in this series of primers have stayed within the realm of the biological, examining life at the levels of the species, the individual, the organ and the cell. But the first dealt with a ...

The colours of microbes that live in clouds high in the sky have been measured for the first time, giving scientists clues that could help us find life on other planets. A diverse range of ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...