The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

Researchers are working in labs to recreate the essential ingredients for life to emerge around hydrothermal vents. The ...

Scientists searched 27 exoplanets for alien technology using planetary eclipses, revealing a new way SETI hunts signals ...

Nearly half a century after it left Earth, a battered spacecraft built with 1970s electronics is closing in on a frontier no ...

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...

Kurdish militants who have been waging a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire. The move comes just two days ...

Earth’s origin story has always had missing pages, from the chemistry of its first crust to the ingredients that seeded life.

Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of life’s building blocks, including all five nucleobases used ...