Tag: extrasolar planet

  • Nation & World

    How Earth was watered

    Evidence is mounting that Earth’s water arrived during formation, aboard meteorites and small bodies called “planetesimals.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Astronomically close

    Earth-like planets potentially capable of supporting life may be right in our galactic neighborhood, according to researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the California Institute of Technology.

    5 minutes