THE UK has completed the build of its first-ever Mars rover, designed to search for signs of alien life on the Red Planet in 2030. It is a landmark feat for the UK, and will be the first ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life beyond Earth, and how can the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) ...

Every year, scientists discover something new and amazing about the universe. Some of these you'll hear about no problem, but ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Key takeawaysPlanets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

A study suggests planets in white dwarf habitable zones could sustain life for billions of years through key biological ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...