Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

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 ...

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.

The search is on for habitable alien worlds, and eventually for signs of life in their atmospheres. To succeed, alien hunters will need to find planets with air. And the cosmic shoreline, if it truly ...

"That probably means they are too hot to be habitable ... the researchers could see this fourth planet for themselves. —'Baby ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

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 ...

Eiza González co-stars in this Prime Video riff on a premise that you’ve seen a million times from director Flying Lotus.

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.