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

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

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

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 ...

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

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 new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

If an alien civilization has technology similar to ours, could it detect life on Earth? Answering this will help our own ...