A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Some researchers blame a pair of predatory killer whales for the decline — suggesting the sharks simply fled — but others, ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

The Blob is a marine heatwave that typically spans parts of the North Pacific Ocean. Marine heatwaves have the capacity to ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life.

IN the spirit of embracing AI, this article was generated with AI and later verified and refined by a human. Note that it may ...

Elizabeth Rayne is a creature who writes. Her work has appeared in Popular Mechanics, Ars Technica, SYFY WIRE, Space.com, ...

Every day, a faint red star warms this ocean world and the uncountable masses of hungry ... For those few hours, the alien algae of the pungent planet make themselves known to Earth. It sounds like ...

Body characteristics needed for deep-sea survival can give creatures an alien-like look. But one scientist called the newly discovered bumpy snailfish "adorable." ...