When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.
More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...
American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...
Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...
First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...
Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.