Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in astrobiology in 2023, he's fascinated by ...

Seismic readings of the interior of Mars strongly suggest large quantities of water buried 6 to 12 miles underground.

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 ...

Considering humans don't have a spacecraft capable of traveling to planets beyond the solar system, scientists have to get ...

The SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program announced Domenica Mediati as the recipient of its Beyond Silos STEAM ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like Earth and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials. In a ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

What is …?” is a section-wide column that explores the STEM majors at UW and explains what they are. This week, c William ...

A project at the University of Tokyo has now applied a photothermal optical spectroscopy technique to the task, investigating whether it could detect evidence of living microbes while satisfying these ...