Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

Rivers on Earth carve winding paths through landscapes, shaping the terrain over time. At first glance, their meandering curves may seem similar to those formed by lava or ice. However, a new study ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

This is what textbooks have taught us over the years but beyond the realm of humankind inhabiting Earth -- out in the alien world, a different form of water ... even the icy planets in our ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

This is a particularly important measurement because nearly every place on Earth with water also harbors life. SEE ALSO: Seven Earth-sized planets orbit an alien star only 40 light-years away Data ...

meaning that they might support bodies of liquid water on their surfaces. SEE ALSO: 5 Alien Planets That We Could Call Home This may not sound all that different from previous Kepler announcements ...