The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and ...

The International Journal of Astrobiology is the peer-reviewed forum for practitioners in this exciting interdisciplinary field. Coverage includes cosmic prebiotic chemistry, planetary evolution ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

A rock on Mars that may hold clues about ancient microbial life on the Red Planet continues to puzzle scientists.

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

When faced with real-life controversy over the thorniest of research topics, we can seek guidance from fiction ...

NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. The mission, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aims to investigate key elements of cosmology ...

The search for extraterrestrial life continues, with Mars remaining a primary focus due to its geological features and past evidence of water. While no living organisms have been found, compounds and ...