Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

The BBC star opened up about what would happen if he discovered alien life ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

Life needs nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. But without the right balance of oxygen, these elements get locked away in planets’ cores.

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

"Life is always hardier than we expect it to be." The post Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to ...