Astrobiology poses fundamental questions about life in the universe: How did it emerge? Is there life beyond Earth? In a ...

Scientists say the findings help explain how life can exist in extreme environments using the chemical compound methane ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests.

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be ...

Earlier this year, astronomers reported possible evidence of life on another planet – but new observations from JWST suggest ...

Scientists have synthesized methanetetrol, an elusive alcohol that could be the foundation of alien life. Chemists have ...

Scientists from MIT explore how life could exist without water, using ionic liquids in extreme planetary environments.

Scientists created methanetetrol in the lab, revealing new possibilities for space chemistry and prebiotic processes.

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...