AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and "complex weather patterns like Earth" might be seen like a good contender for a Planet B. But it would be impossible for us humans to survive there. Planet ...

The first planet ever found orbiting another star was detected in 1995, and it belonged to a class now known as a “hot Jupiter.” These exoplanets are comparable in mass to Jupiter but circle their ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting a firsthand look at a region on Mars previously only seen from orbit that features a "boxwork" pattern, along with evidence of ancient waterways, including rivers, ...

A new article documents the global wind patterns on any planet for the first time. Remote repogramming of the MAVEN spacecraft and its NGIMS instrument enabled the data collection. The results reveal ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

Five science classics have been treated to unique new covers, thanks to a collaboration between Vintage Classics and the pattern-focused design studio The Patterns of Life book series taps into the ...

WASP-127b is a gas giant roughly 500 light-years from Earth - which is relatively close all things considered AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and “complex weather patterns like Earth” might be ...