The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn generated so much data that giving it a definitive value is impossible. It's sufficient to…
Even though Venus and Earth are so-called sister planets, they're as different as heaven and hell. Earth is a natural…
Earth is the only life-supporting planet we know of, so it's tempting to use it as a standard in the…
If we could detect a clear, unambiguous biosignature on just one of the thousands of exoplanets we know of, it…
We know that there are thousands of exoplanets out there, with many millions more waiting to be discovered. But the…
Astronomers have now characterized the atmospheres of several exoplanets, with JWST and upcoming missions promising to turn that into the…
Earth was once entirely molten. Planetary scientists call this phase in a planet's evolution a magma ocean, and Earth may…
Methanol is one of our most extensively used raw materials. It's used as a solvent, a pesticide, and in combination…
We're lucky to have a neighbour like Venus, even though it's totally inhospitable, wildly different from the other rocky planets,…
The differences between Earth and Venus are obvious to us. One is radiant with life and adorned with glittering seas,…