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 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, ...

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 ...

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 have discovered that sulfur dioxide may help in identifying uninhabitable planets. Large amounts of sulfur dioxide in a planet's atmosphere suggest that the planet is inhospitable.

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 ...