Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...

Venus provides invaluable insights into the search for life on other planets, according to a new study from UC Riverside.

Studying and eventually understanding our planet Venus remains our best hope for characterizing earth-mass planets circling ...

At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life ...

Beyond Earth, the glory effect had only been seen on Venus until Cheops and ... Spitzer Space Telescope and NASA’s planet-hunting TESS mission, to study what appeared to be an imbalance of ...

If we discover alien life, what will it look like? We have no way of knowing ... that circle dim red stars smaller than our sun, a new study suggests. The latest cataloging effort is in part ...

Japanese astronomers await alien response to message sent 40 years ago This is what alien life in our solar system might look like NASA detects ... In their study, published in the journal Monthly ...

A new paper suggests that looking for clusters of similar planets could aid in the search for extraterrestrial life as the ...

Groundbreaking study suggests alien ... about the appearance of alien life and underscore the need for a more inclusive approach to astrobiology research. As Nasa's next-generation telescopes ...

New research confirms Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic hellscape for almost the Solar System’s entire 4.57 billion-year ...

While this potentially widens the target when hunting for alien life, it's still limited by our ability to study exoplanet atmospheres as well as understanding of how life can form in the first place.