The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) was the first person to hypothesize that the seeds of life are present ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, but does that mean they could host ...

NASA’s boldest plan yet to find alien life in our solar system targets the most unlikely place: Venus. With its scorching surface and crushing atmosphere, Venus seems uninhabitable - until you ...

A Provocative Theory by NASA Scientists Asks: What If We Weren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth? The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would ...

Gone, too, would be multiple space-based missions to study Earth, the sun and the rest of the universe. Among the planets that would get less attention are Venus, Mars and Jupiter.

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the ...

This artist’s concept of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s ...

And because there is no profit-driven incentive for discovering life on a distant world, corporate entities cannot and will not fill NASA’s void.

In collaboration with a Japanese university, NASA researchers used supercomputers to predict when life will no longer be possible on Earth.

Researchers from the University of Toho, Japan, recently collaborated with NASA scientists to use supercomputers to determine when all life on Earth will end.

Is there really alien life on this exoplanet? We asked 10 experts. A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b.