The JWST has detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of a habitable sub-Neptune, ...

Purple bacteria use infrared light for photosynthesis, offering a way to detect life on other planets through unique infrared ...

Astronomers discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky planet four times Earth’s mass orbiting in its star’s habitable zone.

The work forms the scientific foundation of the Interstellar Object Contact Mission (IOCM-1) — a plan to place a small ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

The Fermi paradox goes like this: given the immense scale of the universe – trillions of galaxies, each with millions upon ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

The center hosts the world’s largest wind tunnel and a rich history of aerospace innovation, preserved in a striking visual ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...