The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

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

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

The observatory will combine tech from NASA's most powerful space telescopes.

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

London, Jan 12 (The Conversation) We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has ...

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...