It also pushed them to tighten their standards, especially when the conversation shifts from “interesting chemistry” to ...

When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, ...

When the Schumer-Rounds Amendment was introduced in the Senate, it explicitly defined “Non-Human Intelligence” in legal text ...

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

Although Aquaman possesses one of DC’s lesser-known rogues’ galleries, the roster contains terrifying monsters and literal ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a shocking secret hidden in the clouds of an exoplanet 124 light years away. K2 18b is a "Hycean" world, a super Earth with a global ocean under a thick ...

Some of the hottest known planets look far too scorched to hold water. Yet their atmospheres keep flashing unmistakable chemical hints that water is present – and sometimes abundant. A new study ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

Welcome to another installment of Sunday Morning Showdown. This week, we put the new Omega Planet Ocean 600M to work. We’re not giving it an easy start to life, pitting it against the mighty Rolex ...