A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

While these differences keep life interesting, they also create moments of tension that feel like we’re all speaking entirely different languages. Whether it’s about work ethics or social media habits ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

"As the search for life continues, future space missions will need to be extra careful when sampling Enceladus's surface waters." All you need to know about planets in our solar system Our solar ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?