Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required for complex life. Oxygen began building up during the period known as the ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet beyond our Solar System.

A new study of the data sent back by the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn points to the moon Titan not having a global water ocean under the surface.

The most important aspect of this is that, with a possible atmosphere and liquid water, this planet lies within the habitable ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

The scale of the bycatch slaughter is a key factor in helping build global support for BBNJ. Another hugely harmful practice ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

"We're not certain if having widespread liquid pockets instead of a global ocean makes Titan more or less habitable." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...