Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

until a friend pointed out that his daily intake was more than half the lethal dose. “We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me.

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Where there is water, there is the potential for life as they say. “It is among the closest Earth analogues we know ... in which it oscillates in and out of the habitable zone, meaning any ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

They wanted to step back and explore what sort of processes created order in the universe—biological or not—to figure out how to study the emergence of life totally unlike life on Earth.

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...