Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have gained new insights in the field of high-pressure carbon chemistry: They ...

We know a lot about the origins of the universe and how biology works in our little corner of it. But one thing we still ...

The great planetary instability coincides with the collision that formed Earth's moon — could the two events be linked?

Scientists say that life in any form has the ability to manipulate a planet's environment and this change can be detected if ...

The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope ...

At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life ...

Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...

The ice giants Uranus and Neptune live up to their name. Although humans have only ever sent one spacecraft (Voyager 2) ...

The virtual purple bacteria produced detectable biosignatures, providing astronomers a new data set to inform next-generation ...

A new paper suggests that looking for clusters of similar planets could aid in the search for extraterrestrial life as the ...

In the quest to discover life beyond our planet, the traditional green color commonly linked with terrestrial life might not ...