NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven advanced technology partners for its next major mission, the Habitable Worlds ...

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

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

American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet evidence in telescope data.

A stratum of molten rock located deep within certain rocky planets may be exerting influence beyond merely shaping their internal structures. Recent research suggests that these concealed magma oceans ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

Is there life on other planets? This is a question that humanity has been trying to answer for a very long time now. We haven’t found a single piece of direct evidence proving that it is there, but ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...