Space Habitable planets could have formed at the dawn of the universe. Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest supernovae ...

LIFE will target dozens of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of their stars, in the hopes of finding biosignatures, which are atmospheric gases produced, or kept in balance, by life.

Inflatable Starshades Might Shine New Light on the Habitable Planets in the Universe. Published: 22 Mar 2025, 23:36 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 9 photos. Photo: NASA/Robert Lea.

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

This video shows the habitable zone around the star HD 20794 (in green) and the trajectory of the three planets in the system. Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected ...

Let’s say there are 100 billion billion habitable worlds (planets or moons) in the universe. Suppose we are such pessimists that we think life’s chances of getting started on any given ...

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LIFE will target dozens of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of their stars, in the hopes of finding biosignatures, which are atmospheric gases produced, or kept in balance, by life.

LIFE will target dozens of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of their stars, in the hopes of finding biosignatures, which are atmospheric gases produced, or kept in balance, by life.