Category: Search for Life

"We were surprised that water could actually form so early on — even before the birth of the first galaxies."

Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely

A distant star-killing supernova could have bombarded Earth with radiation strong enough to shift the course of evolution.

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets.

The idea that life on Earth arose through a series of improbable "hard" evolutionary steps may be misjudged, according to a new paper that says our Earth had a big say in matters.

If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals.

Here we debunk some of the most common and enduring space conspiracies.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a flagship NASA telescope that could answer the ultimate question.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a flagship NASA telescope that could answer the ultimate question.