From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

White dwarfs may be stellar corpses, but that doesn't mean that everything around them has to be lifeless. That's the conclusion of Florida Institute of Technology researcher Caldon Whyte, who's ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified what they describe as the most compelling evidence so far for biological activity beyond Earth. The findings focus on the ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

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