For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's Luke Bouma is exploring a new way to probe this critical question—using ...

“The presence of liquid water is considered critical for planetary habitability,” she said. “This work demonstrates that large quantities of water are created as a natural consequence of planet ...

It's accepted: the Moon does not possess magnetic activity. However, some rocks brought back by the Apollo missions reveal that it must have had a strong magnetic field in the past. This ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life beyond Earth, and how can the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) ...

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 ...