Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is leading a mission to seek the elements necessary for life on exoplanets in far-away ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

A recent study of an exoplanet 120 light-years away revealed it has elements that are believed to be essential in the formation of life. NASA studied K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as ...

The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone"—the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. Credit: NASA Ames/SETI ...

An artist’s rendering of planet K2-18b. Credit: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge) FLORA LICHTMAN: This is Science Friday. I’m Flora Lichtman. Later in the hour, using science to ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge in England announced on April 17 that they had found the strongest evidence yet that life may exist somewhere besides Earth. Using data from NASA's James ...