That’s when Cathedral Gorge State Park calls your name – a slice of otherworldly serenity tucked away in Panaca, Nevada that feels like it exists in its own dimension. These towering spires could ...

The mystery around these sorts of mushrooms illustrates the value in conserving and researching natural wonders like them.

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One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's the world you'd want to visit. K2-18b isn't exactly like Earth. It's more ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

The moon once dismissed as the solar system’s most hostile environment may now sit directly in the path of an object that defies conventional explanation. Two decades of scientific certainty just ...

Scientists are striving to understand the conditions that make life possible on other planets. Simply identifying why some planets are wet and others are dry could go a long way toward narrowing down ...

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An Earth-like world with heavy clouds might not hide life at all. It could make alien life easier to spot if those clouds carry colored microbes from the planet’s skies. Cornell scientists report the ...