On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist on distant planets orbiting volatile stars. The secret? A microscopic ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

The Chemistry in 2050–Space webinar brought together leading scientists to discuss how chemistry is essential for understanding the universe, from the origins of life on other planets to the ...

Scientists say they've extracted some of the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in northern Quebec. The rocks have been placed at approximately 4.16 billion years old during the Hadean-age ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists have turned to Earth-like ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

The UK’s VERVE mission to hunt for microbial life in Venus’s clouds could redefine the search for extraterrestrial life.