Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...

A study from Cornell University discovered that a particular purple “light fingerprint” could be indicative of ...

NESTLED in the Italian foothills, a 50-year-old community lives a sci-fi reality – talking to plants, communicating with ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from ...

Scientists have discovered “alien-like” water inside a 400-million-year-old plant, revealing unusual chemistry that could ...

A NASA astronaut recently sent the internet into a frenzy when he posted an alien-looking photo on social media. The photo ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

Scientists studying distant exoplanets believe that plant life on some worlds could appear red rather than green. The reason lies in the type of light emitted by the host star and how organisms evolve ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has moved beyond planets to their icy moons. Dive into Europa’s subsurface ocean and ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far—which in turn makes them interesting for astrobiological ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...