Extreme radiation around small stars may not doom life nearby
Red and white dwarfs make nasty neighbours due to spurts of deadly radiation, but alien life could still form on planets nearby if shielded by smog or oceans
We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world
We've just sent a message to a nearby star to see if there's any life there - and we'll only have to wait 25 years for a reply
We’ve just found a nearby exoplanet that could be right for life
A newly discovered nearby world is probably close in size and temperature to Earth. This exoplanet might be able to host life because of its unusually calm star
Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life
Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems to have a sandy core that warms water passing between the grains. This heating could help create conditions that are right for life
Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water
Water on the planets nearest the TRAPPIST-1 star would be destroyed by UV radiation but it could survive on the cooler worlds in the habitable zone
We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space
Breakthrough Listen detected more radio pulses from the famous repeating source FRB 121102. They’re higher frequency than previous ones but we still don’t know what causes them