Venus provides invaluable insights into the search for life on other planets, according to a new study from UC Riverside.
At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life ...
If we discover alien life, what will it look like? We have no way of knowing, but the hunt for extraterrestrial life can now include purple bacteria, according to a group of astronomers who are ...
“Generally, when I’m on a plane, if I tell somebody that I search for life on planets around other stars, I don’t get to sleep,” says Lisa Kaltenegger, with a laugh. “It’s always a ...
Exciting rumors have been swirling in the halls of astrobiology. The James Webb Space Telescope, which has been scrutinizing the cosmos in unprecedented detail since its deployment in 2022, has ...
Purple is the new green, as far as aliens are concerned, anyway. If you were asked to imagine an alien planet, it would be reasonable to imagine a green earth-like rock orbiting somewhere in a ...
To observers from outer space, Earth's vast oceans and verdant landmasses make it appear as a blue world punctuated by green ecosystems. It's the only habitable world we humans have ever known, so ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-sized rocky planet. Knowing of no way that ...
A NASA solar sail mission meant to test new space travel materials in Earth's orbit is scheduled to lift off no sooner than April 24, the space agency announced on Thursday (April 11). Named the ...
“Dragonfly is a spectacular science mission with broad community interest, and we are excited to take the next steps on this mission," said NASA administrator Nicky Fox, of the agency's Science ...
Scientists may have pinpointed a massive, oddly shaped volcano taller than Mount Everest on the surface of Mars — and it has been hiding in plain sight for decades, according to new research ...
A NASA solar sail mission meant to test new space travel materials in Earth's orbit is scheduled to lift off no sooner than April 24, the space agency announced on Thursday (April 11). Named the ...