What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a Physicist in Professor Sascha Quanz's Exoplanets and Habitability Group ...

Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different ...

However, Kepler-452b is approximately 1,800 light-years away. With current spacecraft technology, traveling to this distant planet would take millions of years, making colonization a distant dream ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called a biosignature. On Earth, DMS is mostly produced by bacteria and ...

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 ...

the discovery is a significant entry in the history of searching for extraterrestrial life — and a test of researchers’ ability to evaluate potential biosignatures on other planets.

So far, at least, the only one which we know for certain to be habitable is Earth – but that doesn’t mean that other life-bearing planets can’t be out there. The search for these other ...

Both studies point to the possibility of life on other planets. Ciesla says, “If the process that we describe did play a role in the formation of the organics that we see in meteorites ...

Unlike the other planets, Uranus spins on its side ... is about 4.6 billion years old and it is about half way through its life. Every object in our Solar System is held in place by the Sun ...

They’re protected from weather and (on other worlds) from meteoric bombardment, so their geological formations serve as frozen records of the planet’s past. Then there’s the life question.