The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

LONDON (AP) - Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system ... of compounds in the exoplanet's atmosphere that on Earth are only produced ...

Scientists have detected possible biosignature gases in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b -- gases produced only by life on ...