Astronomers have detected four small planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, one of the closest stars to Earth, at just six ...

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method ...

Better analysis techniques have given researchers the ability to detect radio pulses that last from seconds to minutes and ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor at Pennsylvania State University. “We’re an expected or predictable outcome ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

Scientists have discovered plastic ice VII, the fourth stage of water found under extreme conditions. Created by applying ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like Earth and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials. In a ...

Scientists have found a new form of water, called "plastic ice VII," that could possibly exist on other planets. This unusual ...

Harvard University physicist Avi Loeb has responded to those who have cast doubt over his claim that metallic spherules retrieved from the seafloor near Papua New Guinea are from a meteorite of ...

The three-star system, which likely hosts planets, is slowly moving closer to us and will reach its closest point in about 28,000 years.