Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Known since the Venera and Magellan radar mapping missions to Venus in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, coronae are created when plumes of hot material deep inside the planet rise from the mantle ...

By Carl Zimmer The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clouds of phosphine gas on Venus. But as far as we can ...