The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

The experiments show a real chance of creating self-sufficient, closed-loop living spaces using shelters made from ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...