On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is statistics. While it might not be as glamorous as directly imaging a ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

The UK’s VERVE mission to hunt for microbial life in Venus’s clouds could redefine the search for extraterrestrial life.

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists have turned to Earth-like ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...