A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

A new world has just been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 20 light-years away, and it could be one of the most promising ...

Exoplanets may harbor alien life; scientists seek biosignatures through advanced exploration. Could they lead to humanity's ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets. It's not that sulfur is a great indication that a planet is inhabited. Instead, ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...

Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets ... worlds from ...