In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

New research says that the search for extraterrestrial life may be too narrow, as life could thrive in conditions far ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

NASA released a nicely produced documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope called "Cosmic Dawn: the Untold Story of the ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress in advancing the understanding of the formation and evolution of the inner ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable zones. NASA's proposed Habitable World Observatory and other similar ...

"Having a planet in the habitable zone is not sufficient at all to have life on it," Cretignier told the Daily Mail. "Both Mars and Venus are inside the habitable zone of the sun, but I highly don ...

Venus, Earth’s evil twin, provides new insights Today, Venus is a hellish world characterised by surface temperatures reaching around 1,000°F (500°C), which is hot enough to melt lead.

But if Venus was never habitable, then it makes Venus-like planets elsewhere less likely candidates for habitable conditions or life," Constantinou said.

There’s also the optimistic habitable zone, which allows for the fact that Venus and Mars are both theorized to have once been habitable worlds; this suggests that Venus is on what’s called ...