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

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

A new study is skeptical that life could still be present on Jupiter's moon Europa, where a NASA spacecraft launched in ...

Venus is the hardest planet in the solar system to explore. The surface is lethal, and the atmosphere blocks our view from ...