Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean ...

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

The early stage of giant telescope development involves a lot of horse-trading to try to appease all the different ...

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

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

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

But can we use telescopes to detect whether any of these distant worlds also harbour life? A promising method is to analyse the gases present in the atmospheres of these planets. We now know of more ...

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

NASA’s Pandora mission will study exoplanet atmospheres by separating star light from planet signals, helping scientists learn which distant worlds may have air, water, and signs of life ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UK scientists have found an atmosphere on a red hot planet 280 light years away, in the ...