Cosmic Rhapsody takes complex science – astrophysics, chemistry, the search for new worlds – and turns it into something ...

For centuries, humans have looked to the stars, the oceans, and even the tiniest cells to answer one impossible question: why does life exist at all? From philosophers to physicists, theories have ...

In the early chaos of planetary formation, before crusts cooled or atmospheres settled, water might already have been ...

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

The planet's natural carbon sinks are reaching critical limits, absorbing fewer emissions than expected as decades of climate ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Experts discuss innovations that help make the Earth a more inclusive and sustainable place at ‘Towards Our Perpetual Planet’ ...

Students at Metro Community College in Omaha are participating in a program that allows them to design experiments for the ...

Jeff Bezos’ latest round of grants supports researchers using A.I. to protect nature and curb climate impacts.