Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

In the years since it’s been followed by seven other shows, including Star Trek: Picard which ran from 2020 until 2023. That ...

Oscar nominations have finally arrived, and we’re now in the throes of awards season. After a year of watching new releases, tracking their buzz and weighing their chances of taking home an Academy ...

Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in narrowing the search for life on other planets.

Grave warnings have been issued about the dangers of creating life forms using mirror-image molecules. How worried should we be?

Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will take stock of water’s cosmic origins by scanning the galaxy for hidden reservoirs.

Jason Wright works for Penn State University, where his research in the search for life in the ... But as experts on the entangled history of life and our planet, we propose that the coevolution ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.