Learn why finding no obvious biosignatures on 40 to 80 exoplanets doesn't mean that life doesn't exist outside Earth. It just ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...

As per the study conducted by scientists at Ohio State University, these gas giants could form in just 1 to 2 million years, ...

The LIFE mission would feature four space telescopes acting together to search for biosignatures on rocky planets in the ...

The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about every 80 years. Astronomers are pointing to it bursting sometime soon, making it a once-in-a-lifetime event where ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...