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

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The Bank of England has been warned of an impending market crash if it is confirmed that alien life exists on our planet.

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...

London, Jan 12 (The Conversation) We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

MARS was not always the beaming red we’re so used to seeing in space. Scientists have revealed that it was actually a “blue ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...