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

Astronomers don’t search for life by seeing planets directly — they read the light that passes through their atmospheres.

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

"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, ...

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

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

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

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

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...