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

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

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 ...

Unfortunately, the planets are unlikely to harbor life since they're not in Barnard Star's habitable zone, the area around a star where temperatures allow liquid water to exist on a given planet's ...

Astronomers found a 30-million-year-old planet-forming disk, reshaping our understanding of planetary formation and possibly ...

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 ...

Whyte and colleagues wanted to know if a planet orbiting a white dwarf in a constricting habitable zone could ... continues to search the cosmos for alien life. In particular, the results suggest ...