A new study from researchers in Japan suggests that a better way to search for alien life might be to look for suspiciously similar planets that are close to each other. The idea is that if life has ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

If life exists elsewhere, it might not be on worlds like Earth. Here are some of the more peculiar places scientists are looking.

Extraterrestrial life may be closer than previously thought, on a nearby super-Earth called GJ 3378 b, according to a study published in The Astrophysics Journal last week. First discovered in 2024, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a watery exoplanet with a red dwarf sun overhead. A new study suggests that the exoplanet GJ 3378b, which ...

If you keep up with where the next SpaceX or Blue Origin rocket is headed, you are probably familiar with NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a project to determine if a rocket launched from ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time. If life spreads and changes planetary environments, it could leave behind ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet from ...

Scientists believe there are planets outside our solar system where life is even more abundant and sustainable. By Natalie Wolchover Natalie Wolchover is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist ...