The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There ...

proposed that the universe contained many worlds, some old, some new, all with beginnings and ends. In recent centuries, the search for life on other worlds has picked up steam with occasional ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

In fact, some researchers believe life in other parts of the universe might not even be carbon ... There’s only one known case of a truly isolated life form on Earth—and even it shows signs ...

Or we could build a fleet of arks containing life from Earth. Not people, but bacteria, fungi and other simple organisms. Seed the universe with ... It's an idea known as directed panspermia ...

Discover the Fermi Paradox — why, in a vast universe full of stars and planets, haven't we found extraterrestrial life? Explore the ... This contradiction is known as the Fermi Paradox, first ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a Physicist in Professor Sascha Quanz's Exoplanets and Habitability Group ...

Furthermore, to block out the glare of a star so that LIFE could detect orbiting exoplanets, the telescopes will employ a technique known as "nulling ... outcome based on other probabilities ...