Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.

Glasgow Clyde College is preparing to make history by broadcasting a lecture into outer space as part of a new course ...

A study of NASA’s Mars rover images has raised intriguing possibilities about extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Ohio ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is potentially the ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

Unlike our Moon, they can keep water in oceans liquid for more than 4 billion years.

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large ...