We know that there are thousands of exoplanets out there, with many millions more waiting to be discovered. But the…
Aging stars that become red giants increase their luminosity and can wreak havoc on planets that were once in the…
The water that life knows and needs, the water that makes a world habitable, the water that acts as the…
Our planet sits in the Habitable Zone of our Sun, the special place where water can be liquid on the…
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has a high-resolution spectrograph called ESPRESSO, designed specifically to detecting and characterize…
The search for life is tied to the search for liquid water. That's why astronomers are so keen on detecting…
A bewildering number of factors and variables led up to the planet we occupy today, where life finds a way…
Saturn's ocean moon, Enceladus, is attracting increasing attention in the search for life in our Solar System. Most of what…
Astronomers have found plenty of white dwarf stars surrounded by debris disks. Those disks are the remains of planets destroyed…
Despite the fact that we've discovered thousands of them, exoplanets are hard to find. And some types are harder to…