(Natural News) There are a lot of different types of planets in the universe. But the exoplanets recently identified by British and Swiss researchers are special because they contain large amounts of ruby and sapphire. This exotic class is made up of super-Earths, rocky planets that are bigger than our world. Formed in immense heat and found in close […]

(Natural News) Our Sun’s second closest neighboring star might not be alone, after all. A recent Spanish astronomical study theorized that a massive exoplanet is orbiting Barnard’s Star. The newly-discovered world is believed to be a frozen planet that is several times bigger than Earth. Named after an American astronomer, Barnard’s Star is a red […]

(Natural News) A recent study released by NASA-sponsored researchers has removed the luster from one of the crown jewels of science fiction and popular science, an article in News Wise stated. The study reported that while Mars can be explored and colonized by human astronauts, the Red Planet cannot be terraformed into a habitable state, at least not […]

(Natural News) Analysis of a rare meteorite from Mars has provided new evidence that the planet crystallized and formed its crust very quickly. An article on Science Daily stated that this rapid crust formation translates into a much better chance for alien life to have formed and existed on the Red Planet during its early […]

(Natural News) Two of the three closest stars outside our solar system are reportedly emitting comparable amounts of X-ray energy as the sun. That tolerable level of radiation gives alien life a “fighting chance” to survive on any planets that might be lurking around one of those stars, an article in Space.com stated. These stars […]

(Natural News) This week, a team of scientists reported discovering a lake beneath the surface of an ice cap on the southern pole of Mars. This lake is not small by any means; it measures 12.5 miles wide and is a very significant finding. The scientists made the discovery using the Mars Advanced Radar for […]

(Natural News) The findings of a new U.K. study suggest that the upper atmosphere of the seventh planet in our Solar System smells the same as rotten eggs, reports a Live Science article. The study specifically suggested that the topmost clouds of Uranus contain a lot of hydrogen sulfide. You may not be familiar with that chemical, but […]

(Natural News) Before the moon, there was water on Earth. This was the conclusion a group of scientists arrived upon after they studied lunar rocks from all six of the Apollo missions and investigated volcanic rocks from the Earth’s oceans. The research team, led by Richard Greenwood of Open University, a distance learning and research university […]

(Natural News) Hopes for the discovery of another Earth – and alien life – have taken off again after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s (NASA) Kepler space telescope discovered nearly 100 new exoplanets, reported The Daily Mail. Data from the space observatory identified 275 possible candidates, which an international team of researchers narrowed down to 95 confirmed planets. Every […]

(Natural News) As the search for alien life and potentially habitable planets outside of the solar system continues, some experts now believe that they have found the perfect candidate: a densely packed family of planets that is part of what is called the TRAPPIST-1 system. Located some 40 light years away from Earth, the system could […]