NASA's recent findings reveal desert-like planets, popularized in sci-fi like Dune, are unlikely to support life, even within ...

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...