We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

If life exists beyond Earth, water may be the first clue. Water Worlds explores the planets and moons where liquid water ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...