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 ...
Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...
Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...
In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...
European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...
A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...
Maverick astrophysicist Dr Avi Loeb has continued to put forward his claim that 3I/ATLAS looks like more than just a lump of ...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...
A cluster of objects has astronomers puzzled. The post Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System appeared ...