All this happened about 4.5 billion years after Earth formed, with innumerable steps occurring in between that made our ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

White dwarfs, once thought lifeless, could host habitable planets. The James Webb Telescope is searching for atmospheric ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

If an alien civilization has technology similar to ours, could it detect life on Earth? Answering this will help our own ...

Astronomers have detected a 'coherent' radio signal from a distant planet, reigniting hope for the existence of ...

NASA is preparing to launch its exoplanet telescope Pandora and it got a step closer on Monday. In a statement, the agency announced that it has chosen Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the telescope that ...

Nasa's new space telescope Pandora is set to study at least 20 unknown exoplanets to analyse their atmospheres for haze, ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

In a theoretical study, researchers explored how a twin Earth with human-like life and technology might detect our ...