Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in planetary science, revealing the complex weather of a distant gas giant with ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

For many years, astronomers have been fascinated by the mystery of exoplanets—those planets located outside our solar ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always facing it and, for that reason, has a scorching ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.