Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

Life needs nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. But without the right balance of oxygen, these elements get locked away in planets’ cores.

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...

White dwarfs are the dense, collapsed cores of dead stars, capable of ripping apart planets with overwhelming gravity and triggering catastrophic explosions. Yet under the right conditions, these ...