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 ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...

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 ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

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

Ancient Martian life might be preserved in ice for millions of years, new research suggests. Experiments show pure ice acts ...

The FX series “Alien: Earth” premiered last month, and fans are already hoping for another installment. “Alien: Earth” hasn’t been renewed for season 2 yet, but the show’s creator, Noah Hawley, thinks ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for extraterrestrial life more than any ...

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