For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

Astronomers have identified a free-floating planet in the Milky Way. This discovery provides direct observational evidence of a low-mass, unbound planetary body.

The Saturn-sized celestial object is one of the clearest examples yet of a planet drifting through space without a host star.

The US and China both want to be the first to launch a powerful AI data center beyond Earth, but the latter has seemingly ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Abstract: This paper presents Prithvi-EO-2.0, a new geospatial foundation model that offers significant improvements over its predecessor, Prithvi-EO-1.0. Trained on 4.2 million global time series ...

Earth-like atmospheres require precise balances of nitrogen, oxygen, and CO₂, supported by long-term geological and biological processes. Most M-dwarf planets face atmospheric loss due to intense ...