Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit.

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants — once thought too large to form like ordinary planets — may grow ...

This video reacts to the Kurzgesagt episode about aliens under the ice and the possibility of life on rogue planets drifting through space. It explains how frozen worlds hidden oceans and internal ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

Not every great science fiction movie starts a franchise or gets a sequel, and we've been waiting multiple decades for some ...

Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars is taking a backseat as SpaceX shifts its focus to building a self-sustaining city on ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

This twist — that 3I/ATLAS' outer layers have been baked by the sun — does not derail our mission. It just makes the science ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...