Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

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HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its ... and pick out an exoplanet's faint radial velocity signal from the background noise. YARARA proved vital in the effort to confirm HD 20974d ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were ... of the Science Mission Directorate ...

a planetary scientist at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo who wrote a News & Views article accompanying the Nature paper. Before the mission visited Bennu, scientists knew that the ...

They're essential to life on Earth. As an ecologist with a focus on wildlife and conservation, I wrote this article to share some of my fascination for parasites and the importance of their ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Since its launch in 2013 ... The Lagrange L2 point is a position in space where the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun balance, allowing ...

Mars is apparently not the only planet on our radar capable of sustaining life. UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.