Imagine the potential for life and unique environmental conditions if the exoplanet Kepler-22b were located within our solar ...

Both missions—LIFE and HWO—are still in the concept stage. It's unclear whether scientists will ever get to study 50 exoplanets as part of these projects. What happens if—for technical or ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...

According to BGR, the researchers found that the sun will grow hotter, with "its output will continue to increase, gradually heating the planet beyond the threshold of life." Scientists have ...

A distant planet’s atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what ... by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope ...

Because of this, scientists speculate that life may have emerged on Mars billions of years ago and could still be there today. Ever since the Viking 1 and 2 missions landed on the surface in 1976 ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

Data suggests K2-18b is a "world with an ocean that is teeming with life," said study lead author Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge in England. A whopping 8.6 ...