A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

It was, of course, a great joy for me when we could confirm the planet’s existence,” said Dr. Cretignier. “It was also a ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

However, not all exoplanets are this extreme. Some are rocky, roughly Earth-sized worlds in the habitable zones of their stars. Could simple Earth life survive on some of these less extreme worlds?

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Her specialty is exoplanets, namely all the planets in the ... an equation she thought up to estimate the chances of detecting life on such a planet. Beneath another blackboard filled with more ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...