Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is ...

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help understand where to look for it.

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A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Most people believe in life on other planets, a newly released study that canvassed respondents around the world claims. After surveying 26,492 people in 24 countries, research firm Motivaction found ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...