When I think of Mars, my first thought is of a dusty red desert inhabited entirely by robots. I’m often asked why Mars is red ...

With an orbit of 647 days, HD 20794 d is similar to Mars in our solar system. However, its orbit around the star is highly ...

The planet is about six times more massive than Earth and could be rocky, offering a unique opportunity to study a heavier ...

Artist's rendering of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794.Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) The ...

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Life is tenacious and the universe is vast, so some are confident that extraterrestrial life is hiding out there. These ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar spacecraft landed upright on the Moon–a first for a private company–and released amazing HD video ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

After considering Wingate, Campbell and Eastern Mennonite Universities, North Stokes’ senor Jordan Kahn signed his ...

A few days ago, on March 2, the first lunar lander operated by a private company landed successfully on the Moon. The video ...

Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools --tools that scientists could also use to look for ...

For stars such as the Sun or HD 20794, it can extend from 0.7 to 1.5 astronomical units (AU), encompassing not only the orbit of the Earth but also that of Mars in the case of the Sun. The exoplanet ...