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Lisa Kaltenegger’s “Alien Earths” describes intriguing and potentially habitable worlds that have only recently been ...

The relentless search for a habitable planet beyond our solar system might have taken a significant leap forward. Researchers have discovered a planet with a higher habitability rating than Earth, ...

Rocks scrutinized by the Curiosity rover in an ancient, long-dried lakebed on Mars have revealed conditions likely to have ...

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The results suggest that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient, habitable lake on ...

The findings come from NASA’s Curiosity, which is investigating Gale Crater, the site of an ancient lake. Researchers ...

Citizen scientists have spotted a truly remarkable planet in a binary system's habitable zone. They gave a Harry ...

The Earth’s magnetic field is vital for life – without it, the Sun’s radiation would sterilize the planet. But a new study ...

The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...

Manganese-rich sandstones discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate there were once habitable conditions in the Gale ...