Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

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Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

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What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

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"The exercise enabled us to estimate the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown to ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter ... considering how everyday items ...