Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...
Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...
More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...
High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...
Curiosity Rover Reveals Mars Had Liquid Water Rippling Patterns Suggest Ancient Martian Lakes Findings Could Extend Mars' Habitability Window ...
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...