Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

Terrestrial planets like Earth have a natural thermostat called carbonate-silicate (Cb-Si) weathering feedback. The Cb-Si feedback is a geochemical cycle that regulates a planet's atmospheric CO 2 ...

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life Published : June 2 ... Our next steps will be to build a database of terrestrial organisms that live in extreme environments and ...

Learn more about the planets, asteroids, and comets in our solar system. 3:55. Solar System 101. SCIENCE; ... These are known as terrestrial planets, because they’re solid and rocky.

Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it? With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact.

We report the discovery of two new planets: a 1.94 M-Jup planet in a 1.8 yr orbit of HD 5319, and a 2.51M(Jup) planet in a 1.1 yr orbit of HD 75898. The measured eccentricities are 0.12 for HD 5319b ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

Astronomers have captured silicate clouds and a mysterious disk around two giant young exoplanets, revealing surprises that ...

A planetary parade is a periodic event where multiple planetary bodies sharing a common star appear collectively to an ...

When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...