Life as we know it needs liquid water. For liquid water to exist on a given planet, it has to lie in a specific region called ...

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

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

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

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

Every once in a while the scientific community comes up with a discovery so important that it immediately changes the course of human evolution. I’m talking of course about the invention of the word ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...