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Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

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Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

But these old rocks were one of the rarest minerals found on Earth. Until the discovery, only about a snowball-sized amount ...

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...