For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

News that a NASA scientist has announced fresh progress on Proxima b has pushed our nearest known exoplanet neighbor back ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events could impact exoplanet habitability ...

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Joseph DeRisi explaining the characteristics of Balamuthia mandrillaris, at the inaugural session of UCSF's public lecture series on 11/06. Photo by Anusha Subramanian. What do brain-eating amoebas, a ...

Mercedes Benitez looks around her new living room and says she still "can't quite believe this belongs to me." As she speaks, her son "Junior" wanders into the kitchen, searching for the snack drawer ...

The Washington (evening) Rotary Club held its weekly meeting Thursday, July 6, at the Washington Yacht & Country Club. Following a time of fellowship in the Upper Deck, members assembled in the ...