A rocky world orbiting within its star’s habitable zone may be surrounded by a helium-rich atmosphere, providing the ...

A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024 is a rare, primitive space rock containing evidence of ancient water.

For the first time ever, researchers have discovered a type of sugar also found in raspberries, not on Earth, but inside a ...

Scientists have seen an atmosphere around a rocky, potentially habitable planet for the first time – marking a major milestone in the search for alien life. As well as being a major discovery in ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

A 300-foot-tall anomaly on one of Mars' moons has intrigued observers for years.

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

Astronomers find planet that is shockingly like Earth in huge milestone for search for aliens - First ever discovery of its ...

A rare meteorite containing amino acids fell through a New Jersey roof in 2024, offering new clues about the origins of life.

Scientists say the findings of the new study may make future searches for extraterrestrial intelligence faster and more ...