The resulting products were ionized; their mass-to-charge ratios were determined based on the time it took for them to reach ...

Recent reports of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finding signs of life on a distant planet understandably sparked excitement. A new study challenges this finding, but also outlines how the ...

Life on our planet relies on carbon-based DNA. The panspermia hypothesis suggests that life could have originated in a different part of the universe and then been transported to Earth. In that ...

Nasa's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 To date it has found nearly 4,000 potential planets outside the solar system Its primary goal has been to find a true Earth 2.0 ...

Since Earth is the only planet where life has been confirmed in the universe, efforts to search for life have been focused on finding planets in the habitable zone like Earth, but if life can ...

In 2040, Americans plan to vote in a U.S. presidential election. Japan promises to stop using nuclear power. Britain’s Prince George will turn the ripe age of 27. And, as the interactive above ...

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...

Complex life here on earth is largely thought to be possible due to the geophysics of earth’s plate tectonics. That is, how our planet’s tectonic plates enable large amounts of carbon dioxide ...

Waterworld: up to 50% of the atmosphere of K2-18b may be composed of water Astronomers have for the first time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-107 b could ...

Humanity has been wondering about whether life exists beyond our little backwater planet for so long that we’ve developed a kind of cultural bias as to how the answer to this central question ...