Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists have assessed Yellowstone's chances of eruption by measuring electronic currents flowing deep within the Earth ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Super-Earths are rocky planets larger than Earth with thin ... Unlike most mini-Neptunes, Enaiposha seems to have an atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide, like Venus’s, except on a much larger scale ...

A list of the top 10 global regions where natural or anthropogenic sources emit methane on a continuous, "persistent" basis ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

ALTON - Upper Alton Baptist Church and Preschool invite the community to come out for their 27th annual Chocolate ...