Lightning, with its extreme temperatures, is capable of transforming atmospheric gases into prebiotic compounds. These molecules are essential for the emergence of life, as may have been the case ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

As the school season ends, the Sioux Center Public Library prepares for its busy season, the summer reading program.

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth ...

The 4.4-meter-aperture telescope, led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and situated at the Lenghu astronomical ...

A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

Abstract: Direct imaging of exoplanets is crucial for advancing our understanding of planetary systems beyond our solar system, but it faces significant challenges due to the high contrast between ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

Astronomers confirm the existence of small, hot and likely rocky planets by observing the subtle gravitational wobbles of the star they orbit Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have developed FLARE, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to predict ...