An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

NASA’S Pandora mission has moved one step closer to exploring planets which have the potential for alien life. The team ...

IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could there be life on planets outside our solar system ... AI enables astrophysicists to explore a much greater volume of data, in different combinations ...

Most of us are reserving judgment on whether there is intelligent life on other planets; we haven’t even found bacteria yet, much less a race of aliens with Internet service and takeout food.

So scientists are using different methods to see if there is life on planets other than the Earth. Space probes can explore other planets without needing astronauts. Some of the missions ...

Red dwarf stars may be ubiquitous in our galaxy, but the environment around them is very different ... For a planet to be warm is considered by scientists as essential in the hunt for life because ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

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

Life on the planet ultimately recovered because ... "In the end, understanding what causes tectonics and whether it could operate on different planets will help us understand whether these planets ...

"But when you go deeper and look at the incredible diversity of life on our planet, there are so many different organisms ...

The science team with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory project, which is aimed at looking for signs of alien life in distant solar systems, suggested that planets considered habitable are ...