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

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

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

The really sticky issue for human habitation of Mars, according to experts, is human health. Between a long and grueling journey with health effects of its own, arriving on the planet will be no ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

This will be something that we will be working on for a few years I think, to keep honing in on the heat shield,” These words ...

The TNO, which are described as minor planets that orbit the sun at a greater distance than Neptune, were found on the edge of our solar system.

Elon Musk outlined SpaceX’s plans for flights to Mars, along with his long-term vision to establish a permanent city on the ...

Greet the summer heat with new books from Adrian Tchaikovsky, V.E. Schwab, Malka Older, Elizabeth Bear, and more.

“We could have detected this galaxy even if it were 10 times fainter, which means that we could see other examples yet earlier in the universe, probably into the first 200 million years,” says Brant ...