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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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