A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

New research from University of California, Irvine suggests over 200 known exoplanets may be significantly larger than ...

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

Lichens grow in a wide range of shapes and forms. Does their ability to resist UV radiation suggest how microbes might ...

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

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. This moment ...

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

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

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