Life could emerge and travel in the total darkness of space, far from any star. Recent work shows that moons accompanying ...

For a decade, TRAPPIST-1 was the most promising address in the search for life beyond Earth — a red dwarf star 39 light-years ...

Scientists find that planets need more than water to support life. Too little water may cause long-term overheating and ...

"I believe the most remarkable discoveries that the GMT will make will be the ones that we haven't even imagined yet. There's ...

It’s not the closest potentially habitable planet, but astronomers say a world 40 percent wider than Earth could be one of… ...

How much water do habitable exoplanets need for life as we know it to exist? This is what a recent study published in The ...

Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new ...

The question “are we alone” remains unanswered, but humanity may get a hint of it in the coming years as technologies are ...

An international team including the University of Bern (UNIBE) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), members of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, has succeeded in mapping the ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

For decades, the search for a twin of Earth has been vast, fast-moving and unpredictable. It has resembled a gold rush, yielding thousands of exoplanets faster than scientists could process them. The ...