What if Earth is just one of many planets with the potential to support life, and intelligent beings exist somewhere out ...

Scientists are revolutionizing the search for extraterrestrial life by challenging our somewhat Earth-centric assumptions ...

Before they take the long journey to another planet, humans will have to find the right place to land. New findings from a ...

The idea of terraforming Mars—essentially reshaping the planet to support Earth life—has captured imaginations for decades.

First discovered in 2015 during NASA's planet-hunting ... the exoplanet could be a Hycean world covered by ocean water underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Could alien life thrive on K2-18b?

For the first time, an international collaboration led by Chinese researchers with the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has adopted the transit timing variation (TTV) technique ...

EPA, via Shutterstock Supported by By Carl Zimmer In April, a team of astronomers announced that they might — just might — have found signs of life ... new tool to peer at distant planets ...

My colleagues and I have developed a new approach that will identify the most interesting planets ... life, this approach can help assess if the environment where it is detected can actually ...

Alyce Collins is a Newsweek Life and Trends reporter based in ... newsweek.com A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our ...

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the ... Mars and Jupiter. A new study in Nature ...