Does a planet just have to be in a star’s habitable zone to be habitable, or are other forces at play? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of ...

Astronomers have identified a newly discovered exoplanet that may orbit within the outer edge of its star's habitable zone, raising fresh questions about how common potentially life-supporting worlds ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that once held a vast lake—considerably expanding ...

What is the habitability potential on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a ...

But habitability is far more complex and ruthless than just getting the temperature right. A world needs a protective magnetic field to shield life from radiation, a stable atmosphere thick enough to ...

Not all stars are equally hostile to life even when they appear extreme and dangerous. Some stellar objects produce intense ...

The weathering of silicate rocks plays an important role to keep the climate on Earth clement. Scientists investigated the general principles of this process. Their results could influence how we ...

Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system.

With the success of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, we’ll soon be seeing more robotic explorers which observe distant locations in the solar system from the air. Set for launch in 2034, NASA’s ...

Unlike Earth, there are millions of planets that have permanent day sides bathed in the light of their star, and permanent night sides cloaked in darkness. The area between these two sides is called ...