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 ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Scientists find entirely new kind of planet - Study suggests that the galaxy’s planets could be far more different than we ...

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New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals The ...

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It is possible that extremophile microbes lcould exist on icy moons and planets with conditions similar to subglacial waters or the ocean floor.