Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. Using data from NASA's James Webb ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...

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Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 after ...

Planet Labs next-generation Pelican-2 satellites - enhanced with Nvidia's Jetson edge platform and advanced AI - will scan military maneuvers across the surface of the globe when launched later this ...

"I was hoping to demonstrate to myself that there is a lot more river water than we thought. Turns out, that's not what we got — that's a little sobering." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...