It’s one of humanity’s oldest questions. Are we alone? Is there life elsewhere in our galaxy or the universe? Scientists last ...

BD+05 4868 Ab is located about 140 light years away from Earth and has a surface temperature of 1,600 deg C. Read more at ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout". 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

Many scientists believe it’s only a matter of time before an alien ecosystem is discovered, but experts are skeptical about a ...

It’s about 2.6 times larger than Earth and nearly nine times as massive, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected potential biosignatures, dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl ...