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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

The American space agency is, however, seriously considering starshades as a solution for detecting habitable planets and directly ... signatures of life on alien worlds. If it works, the tech ...

A strange type of ice thought to dwell deep in the oceans of alien planets has finally been proven ... some of which might be habitable. Plastic ice is “something intermediate between a liquid ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is unlikely to detect biosignatures—atmospheric gases produced by living organisms— on nearby planets. Similarly, the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory will ...

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 ...