There Are Mystery Rings Around 500,000 Barrels on the Seafloor. They Shouldn’t Be There. Selena Quintanilla's Autopsy Report ...

Researchers have come up with a color-coded key that could prove crucial in detecting signs of life on exoplanet clouds.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud ...

An exoplanet completely or densely covered by clouds could aid astronomers in their search for signs of life beyond Earth. Cloudy skies may spoil a picnic or block a view of the stars through a ...

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT.

Clouds may spoil a picnic or block our view of the stars, but they could also help scientists discover life on distant ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

A superconducting kinetic inductance detector improves sensitivity limits needed for observing cold astrophysical objects, ...

“Biopigments are universal,” Coelho said. “They help life survive radiation, dryness, and other stresses. Now we have a new way to look for them—through the clouds of distant worlds. If life looks ...

Researchers have created the first color key of sky-dwelling microbes to help detect signs of alien life in the clouds of ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...