For as long as humans have looked toward the stars, one question has remained unanswered: how did life begin? Scientists have ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

A rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star may look like a perfect place for life to thrive — but not if it's too small to hold onto its atmosphere. So, we may wonder: How much ...

A new philosophical paper argues that consciousness may not be exclusive to life as we know it. According to Eric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a watery exoplanet with a red dwarf sun overhead. A new study suggests that the exoplanet GJ 3378b, which ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Milky Way galaxy has more than 400 billion stars in it. Over the last few decades, ...

A rocky world orbiting within its star’s habitable zone may be surrounded by a helium-rich atmosphere, providing the strongest evidence yet that planets with Earth-like conditions could support life ...

The newly discovered exoplanets, designated as GJ 9827 b, c and d, are located fairly close to their host star, completing orbits within 6.2 days. ESO A nearby 'super‑Earth' just 25 light years from ...

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...