According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of extraterrestrial beings.

increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons, according to a NASA statement. In Graphics: How Bennu ...

Alien lifeforms living in oceans on other planets could remain hidden from spacecraft, suggests new research. Searching for ...

This would render half the planet too hot for life, the other half too cold. The midline, though, might be temperate enough for life. As it happens, there’s a rocky planet, called Proxima ...

Their mission could "change the way we look at the possibility of life on other planets too," the researchers say. The initial discovery confounded marine scientists. It was previously accepted ...

A small satellite, dubbed Pandora, will conclude whether 20 other planets is capable of creating alien life. It is aiming to examine each exoplanet a total of 10 times. "Although smaller and less ...

gathered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope along with previous observations from Hubble and other space ... such gas giant planets are hardly harbingers of life as we know it.

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...