An exoplanet only 100 light-years from Earth appears to be the best candidate yet for a sloshy, water-covered ocean world. It’s known as TOI-1452b, and measurements of its size and mass indicate a density profile consistent with a global liquid … Read More
Finding a planet with a gravitational field that humans can survive and thrive in will be critical if we want to colonize another world. If the gravity is too strong, our blood will be drawn down into our legs, our … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was launched last December, has been progressively powering up its instruments and unfurling its sun shield, and is now aligning its mirrors in preparation for operation. Within a few months, the most powerful … Read More
Even though we haven’t discovered any evidence of extraterrestrial life so far, we should be prepared for the day when that changes. After all, many scientists believe that alien life is a distinct possibility – if not an outright probability. … Read More
The perfect combination of enough land and water turns out to be a rarity in the Universe. According to scientists at the University of Barcelona, it is quite difficult to find a planet that has conditions suitable for life … Read More