The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite view of Mars taken by the Viking I and II probes. NASA/USGS In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...