EXCLUSIVE: Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor) has attached to star in Life on Other Planets, a romantic comedy from Sony ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Scientists have discovered a new way oxygen can form in carbon-dioxide-rich atmospheres of worlds beyond our own —- challenging assumptions about how we should search for life on other planets, and ...

Intelligent life may develop on planets as a rule, not an exception — increasing the odds of humanity existing beyond Earth, according to a new study. Researchers from Penn State University proposed ...

Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable. By Carl Zimmer Update, July 29, 2025: The conclusion of this study ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. The James Webb Space Telescope has its sights set on seven planets circling a red dwarf star called Trappist-1, about 40 ...

If you were able to catch the last webinar from our Chemical Sciences Roundtable, “Chemistry in 2050– Space” you know that it was out of this world, literally and figuratively. The webinar explored ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has always been a key motivator of space exploration. But if we were to search Mars, Titan, or the subsurface oceans of Europa or Enceladus, it seems like all we ...

The orange sea lichen, found on coastal rocks. Image by Rosser1954 Roger Griffith - Own work, Public Domain. The orange sea lichen, found on coastal rocks. Image by Rosser1954 Roger Griffith - Own ...

A violent stellar explosion has just given astronomers their clearest look yet at how some of the raw ingredients for biology ...

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that ...