June 9, 2016 Carbon planets around special stars could have hosted life Planets made of diamonds and graphite, and early life forming on these strange worlds— it sounds like science fiction, but researchers are saying it could be a possible.
June 6, 2016 Gorgeous 'twilight zone' photo of Pluto may show cloud for 1st time A spectacular new image of Pluto shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skies.
June 3, 2016 Did our sun steal 'Planet 9' from another star? There are eight planets in our solar system, and have been officially ever since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. But what if there was a ninth planet, billions of miles past Neptune?
May 31, 2016 Jupiter moon Europa's ocean may have enough energy to support life Jupiter's moon Europa might be able to support life even if there's little or no volcanic activity under the satellite's icy shell, a new study suggests.
May 27, 2016 This new NASA photo of Saturn and its rings is simply jaw-dropping The sheer beauty of Saturn and its amazing rings takes center stage in this spectacular new photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
May 24, 2016 Superflares from the Sun may have sparked life by warming Earth Life on Earth may owe its existence to incredibly powerful storms that erupted on the sun long ago, a new study suggests.
May 17, 2016 Alien megastructure? Dimming star may have less exotic explanation A mysterious darkening star might not be home to an alien megastructure after all.
May 12, 2016 Surprising geysers on Saturn moon Enceladus hint at plumbing mystery A small water jet on Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, spews its fiercest eruptions when the moon is farthest from the planet, a new study suggests, but the overall gas output doesn't increase much during that time.
May 10, 2016 NASA identifies 1,284 new exoplanets, most ever announced at once NASA announced today that it had validated the existence of 1,284 new planets outside of our solar system— bodies known as exoplanets— and that of those, nine are small planets located in what the space agency calls the “habitable zone.”
May 10, 2016 The universe has probably hosted many alien civilizations: Study Many other planets throughout the universe probably hosted intelligent life long before Earth did, a new study suggests.
