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.

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

A team of international researchers has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet that may have the right conditions ...

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

In a theoretical study, researchers explored how a twin Earth with human-like life and technology might detect our ...

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

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.