A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the search for life. According to a recent study, tens of ...

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...

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.

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 ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

Do Aliens Exist? This interesting question has kept the generations interested in the evidence of their existence on other ...

In Carlsbad Caverns, researchers found glowing cyanobacteria that thrive in darkness, suggesting new ways to search for alien ...

"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...