Our solar system has a wide variety of planet types, from tiny rocky Mercury to huge puffy gas giant Jupiter to distant ice giant Uranus. But beyond our own system, there are even more types of ...

A new paper is suggesting that the most common type of planet out there is what scientists are calling a super earth. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) has the details. A new paper is suggesting that ...

When it comes to looking for life elsewhere in the universe, we tend to be very Earth-centric: We look for planets that are similar to our own, assuming that life elsewhere will be similar to us and ...

No Man's Sky takes you across the universe on a journey that is as incredible as it is daunting. There are many uncharted worlds to be discovered using the massive galactic map, each bringing its own ...

Water worlds could be surprisingly common in our galaxy — but they probably don’t look like you expect. If we find evidence of life on alien worlds, it will probably be on a planet somewhere between ...

Aliens, should they exist, likely inhabit rocky planets like ours, but new research proposes an entirely new type of habitable world—one that scarcely resembles Earth. Earth is the only functional ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) telescope have used a new detection technique to discover an unusual planet that orbits two stars. The planet TIC 172900988b has ...

Weird lava worlds can shed light on our planet’s past, suggests a recent study. When you think about a habitable planet, you probably don’t picture a fiery ocean of magma churning on the surface of an ...

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NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new ...