Bacteria living in Antarctica’s barren desert soils have developed a survival strategy that defies conventional biology: they ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in astronomy and a key interest for the public. Addressing this challenge ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While Earth only has the one, Jupiter has about 100 that we know of (and likely ...

Growing research suggests the bacteria left behind by the common childhood infection may trick the immune system into attacking both the invader and the body's own cells. Colored scanning electron ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

Curled ribbons of long beans lay in a tangled heap. They’re competing for space with a pile of glossy aubergines, each shaped like a crescent moon. On an adjacent stall, there’s a box of speckled, ...

A rocky planet beyond gas dwarfs in LHS 1903 indicates that planetary systems form in unexpected ways.

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, asteroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Of these, only a handful ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." according to NASA"s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space ...

Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...