A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth. The result ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

The most conspicuous technosignature on the list of the SETI Institute ... the chemical composition of a planet's atmosphere, they could identify Earth as a habitable world and even detect signs ...

New research suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability ...

The nearer a planet is to its star, the more light it reflects. Alas, the habitable zone of a red dwarf ... block the light of the next star on its list of targets. Though the dancers will be ...