As humans, we are naturally inclined to wonder about whether there is life on other planets. Could it possibly just be us in this entire solar system? Has it always been this way? We have songs ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, we can turn to a surprising place: the human gut.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Until now, scientists have generally thought that planets orbiting white dwarfs would be unsuitable for life because the dynamic ... bodies like the sun and other main-sequence stars, which ...

As humans, we are naturally inclined to wonder about whether there is life on other planets. Could it possibly just be us in this entire solar system? Has it always been this way? We have songs like ...

On this week's episode: big bird intelligence, astronauts should jump, sheep and human history, and a tiny great ape.

“If we start finding methyl halides on multiple planets, it would suggest that microbial life is common across the universe,” said Leung. “That would reshape our understanding of life’s ...

The other is that those building blocks came ... the fraction of stars with planets and calculates the fraction of those planets where intelligent life may emerge. An optimistic estimate using ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface of the Red Planet—and found evidence that Mars may have once been warm, wet ...