The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

What if life on Earth didn’t begin here at all, but arrived from somewhere else in the universe? Panspermia is the ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

If this hasn’t sent you into a bit of an existential spiral, they assure that it’s unlikely that we are the only ones out ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...