When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

Picture this. We're floating through the cosmos on a pale blue dot, orbiting an average star in an unremarkable galaxy. The big question that has haunted humanity since we first looked up at the night ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning jewel—a planet around a tiny red dwarf star that may have the right conditions to ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbors life. In the last 30 ...

For decades, scientists have grappled with a profound question known as the Fermi Paradox: if the galaxy is teeming with the potential for extraterrestrial life, why is the cosmos so quiet? A new ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...