The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first shots of the universe Monday, showcasing colorful nebulas, stars and ...

The biosignatures were rooted in tentative detections, and this sparked debate amongst astronomers, who were skeptical about ...

NASA model predicts the life-hosting potential of remote planets and moon New habitability tool blends biology, chemistry, ...

There’s always going to be a way to make something abiotically.” With these words, chemist Eleanor Browne of the University ...

NASA’s Webb captures the Sombrero Galaxy in near-infrared, revealing hidden stars and dusty features in stunning detail.

A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it. Astronomers had detected just a hint, a ...

This week, uncover the fate of the latest lunar lander to attempt touchdown on the moon’s surface, see a tower of worms, revisit the Dead Sea Scrolls’ age, and more.

Astronomers had detected just a hint, a glimmer of two molecules swirling in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b — molecules that on Earth are produced only by living things.

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has never been found in any planetary atmosphere to date.

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...