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

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

NASA is getting closer to building the powerful telescopes needed to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, thanks ...

Telescopes allow scientists to analyze starlight passing through distant planets’ atmospheres, revealing clues about their ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.