On a special episode (first released on Wednesday, June 26th) of The Excerpt podcast: The age-old question has been debated for centuries. Might we soon get an answer? The planet that is the current ...

E.T. phone home planet K2-18b. A team of astronomers shared they’ve found what they say is the most promising sign of extraterrestrial life on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, in a solar system 120 ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope detected potential biosignatures in the atmosphere of K2-18 b last year, the discovery sparked intense debate. Here was a sub-Neptune exoplanet 124 light years away ...

In an exciting breakthrough for astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial life, a team of international scientists has announced the discovery of Gliese 12 b, a temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet ...

As WorldAtlas notes, “Humanity has physically explored more of our oceans than space. However, the journey of discovery in both fields has barely begun, promising endless opportunities for exploration ...

With over 5,000 exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — discovered to date, there's a growing interest in locating which of these planets might be habitable. It's no easy matter to find a ...

Gliese 12 b is tantalizingly close and moderately warm, situated just 40 light-years away around a red dwarf star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Earth’s crust teems with subterranean life that we are only now beginning to understand. Credit...Illustration by Brian Rea. Animation By Delcan & Co. Supported by By Ferris Jabr Ferris Jabr is a ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life. When you ...

Most pieces in this series of primers have stayed within the realm of the biological, examining life at the levels of the species, the individual, the organ and the cell. But the first dealt with a ...