The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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 ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule. When you purchase ...