When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...

A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the search for life. According to a recent study, tens of ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Do Aliens Exist? This interesting question has kept the generations interested in the evidence of their existence on other ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbors life. In the last 30 ...

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...