A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond ...

Life beyond Earth: Using fresh data from ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists have found 45 rocky planets that might have the right ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed down billions of space whispers to 100 signals. Could one of these point to ...

Project Hail Mary ," the movie adaptation to Andy Weir's 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...