A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of ...

The search for extraterrestrial life is one of the most exciting frontiers of modern science. Thanks to recent discoveries of exoplanets like Gliese 581 g, Kepler-22 b, Kepler-186 f, and Kepler-452 b, ...

Earth teaser has fans buzzing after it seemed to confirm something unexpected, we’re maybe getting new types of alien life in ...

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could ...

Teledyne Brown Engineering helped implement the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System (ELVIS) project aboard the ISS.

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures to a level beyond what is survivable for all known life ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

While popular culture commonly depicts extraterrestrial life as little green men with large, oval-shaped heads, it’s most ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...