A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

A single alien world can be misleading. A strange gas in an atmosphere might look promising, then turn out to come from ...

New research suggests scientists can search for life beyond Earth by studying patterns across many planets instead of relying ...

Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) and National Institute for Basic Biology have developed a new method ...

The traditional habitable zone is shown by the diagonal orange stripe. Its distance from the host star (horizontal axis, in Astronomical Units) increases with luminosity, which increases with the mass ...

Canary Islands musician Juan Mesa, Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog and Maui guitarist Jeff Peterson are collaborating to send music to other planets. Courtesy photo On a mission to contact other ...