Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

For how long can the Earth support complex life before entering an irreversible zone from an environmental perspective?

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

How does Mars influence Earth’s climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Space ...

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 ...

Understanding planetary habitability is one of the major challenges of the current scientific era. Though traditionally viewed through the lens of our home planet and its evolutionary history, data ...

The habitable zone : basic concepts / S.R. Kane -- Exoplanets : criteria for their habitability and possible biospheres / J.L. Grenfell et al. -- The habitable zone and the generalized greenhouse ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

The SETI Artist in Residency (AIR) program announced Planetary Futures. This new public art research-creation residency explores planetary science, with a focus on climate research. Through this ...