“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst and one of the paper’s ...

NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new research from the University of Texas at Austin suggests that an atmosphere ...

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than Earth, making it more than twice as far as Pluto. With a highly elongated orbit ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young sun-like star known as TOI-6109. The newfound alien worlds are slightly larger ...

For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal in the light spectrum that didn’t match any known mineral. That puzzling ...

Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its subterranean seas, per a groundbreaking new study in the journal Nature ...

We know the temperature of Earth ’s inner core is very roughly about 5,000 Kelvin (K) (4,727°C). It was once liquid, but has cooled and become solid over time, expanding outwards in the process. As it ...

Anchor Brian Webb and executive producer Trenton Hooker are joined by University of Arizona Professor Laird Close, who talks about his team's discovery of a new planet. Also, Donald Schmitt, a ...