"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

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

Life on Earth relies on carbon-based DNA, but our readers are keen to speculate about other possibilities for alien life ...

NASA's recent findings reveal desert-like planets, popularized in sci-fi like Dune, are unlikely to support life, even within ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Based on the history of life here on earth, at least one prominent paleontologist thinks that complex life in the cosmos is likely very rare.

Astronomers from the United States and Scotland have published a paper examining space environments other than planets that can support life. In a paper published in the academic journal ...

Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...