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 ...

Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, ...

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 ...

NASA uses a seven-step scale to verify evidence of extraterrestrial life, requiring multiple independent confirmations. Even ...

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

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

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

Water may not be essential to support life, and an entirely different type of liquid could do the same in alien worlds, a new ...