The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.

NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan was speaking at an annual conference in the capital on Tuesday about the search for habitable worlds and alien life. Stofan predicted that the discovery could be only ...

Although he says there's no evidence of alien life, Isaacman believes we could discover it within our lifetime ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research group comes out with a paper helping to shape what is becoming one of the ...