The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

ESA's first mission to another world, the Mars Express orbiter, began circling the Red Planet on June 2, 2003. Ever since, ...

A new way of comparing the color andintensity changes of light reflected off of Earth's surface to the flickersfrom exoplanets may help reveal the presence of oceans, continents and ?possibly ? life ...

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From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...

LONDON Astronomers have for the first time managed to determine the color of a planet outside our solar system, a blue gas giant some 63 light years away. An international team of astronomers working ...

In 1990, Voyager 1 captured the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken, revealing that from beyond Pluto's orbit, Earth appears as nothing more than a "pale blue dot." In a new study, ...

Stars all around the universe appear in different colors. The hottest of the hot are white, followed by blue, and somewhere near the bottom of the color spectrum are red and brown, which are some of ...

Atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets has thus far been limited to ground-based observations of young, self-luminous, Jovian planets. Near-term space- and ground- based facilities ...