Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

This eccentric orbital path traverses the star’s habitable zone, the region in which liquid water might persist and allow life to arise, although the planet’s cycles of hot and cold could at ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...