The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home ...

When a scientific controversy or breakthrough dominates headlines, press officers and journalists often quote a handful of expertS ...

In fact, polls in Australia, the US and elsewhere indicate around a third of the public believes aliens are here. However, while what we know about the universe suggests aliens may exist, there are ...

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with the theme. The paper, published in The Astronomical Journal, describes them ...