The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

NASA’s MAVEN finally sees sputtering—an escape process that stripped Mars of its atmosphere and ancient water.

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

What if Earth isn’t the most habitable planet in the universe? In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a group of “superhabitable” exoplanets,worlds that may offer even better ...

Methyl halides, detected in space, are key biosignatures in the search for extraterrestrial life, indicating potential ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing solutions and ...

A second, smaller planet might be nearby that measures only slightly bigger than Earth and it, too, might dwell inside the “conservative” habitable zone, NASA reported, saying the planet ...

(Because it is necessary for life as we know it, water is generally the focus in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth.) If a planet around an M dwarf was further away, that distance may ...