The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

NASA may have just found our second Earth - a planet so similar, it could be habitable for humans. But this is just the beginning. Thanks to powerful telescopes and new detection methods, scientists ...

NASA’s MAVEN finally sees sputtering—an escape process that stripped Mars of its atmosphere and ancient water.

The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the discovery of gases on a faraway planet that may be the same as those produced by ocean plankton on Earth. But a North Carolina ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

Methyl halides, detected in space, are key biosignatures in the search for extraterrestrial life, indicating potential ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.