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

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

Astronauts are set to swab the space station's exterior, searching for living microbes to better understand how they survive ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

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

But according to an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Geneva, in a study published ...

Project Phoenix’ was initiated by small research organisation known as the SETI Institute. But it was lucky to get off the ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary ...