Ready to go for a swim? The biggest swimming pool in this section of the galaxy could be just 24 trillion miles away. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge in England announced on April 17 that they had found the strongest evidence yet that life may exist somewhere besides Earth. Using data from NASA's James ...

Earths, vast underground oceans of molten rock may be quietly doing the work of life’s first line of defense: generating ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, ...

A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected biosignatures in the atmosphere of a possible ocean world 124 light-years from the solar system. The scientists behind the ...

Data suggests K2-18b is a "world with an ocean that is teeming with life," said study lead author Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge in England. A whopping 8.6 times ...

In mid-April, scientists led by the University of Cambridge in England published a paper detailing potential evidence of life on a distant planet called K2-18b. Now, astrophysicist Jake Taylor at the ...

Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...