Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

The recent detection of a gas in a distant plant has been linked to life forms has sparked debate among scientists.

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky has helped scientists uncover something astonishing: planets much like ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the search for alien life with new tools that detect UAPs and identify Earth-like exoplanets across the galaxy.

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has inched a little closer today with the news ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

then it suggests the same could be true of life evolving on other Earth-like planets in much the same way. To back up this assumption, he notes that an updated Bayesian analysis of the data found ...