The upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory should be able to spot the glint of water on habitable planets, and maybe more ...

Planet 4546B becomes increasingly hostile as the expedition moves deeper, from electrical predators and volcanic environments ...

The Teeming Universe imagines alien ecosystems by changing fundamental planetary conditions and asking how evolution might ...

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have identified a first-of-its-kind planet characterised with a unique hellscape and atmosphere. The planet is found to be orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of ...

Scientists had a mixed response to the announcement of biosignatures spotted on an alien exoplanet. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around ...

If finned swimming animals evolved in an ocean on an alien world, what would they look like? Quite possibly a lot like the ones on Earth, a team of researchers says. A new study that examined certain ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...