The scientific wonderers at What If explore the icy oceans of a Jovian moon to see how finding alien microbes would change ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has moved beyond planets to their icy moons. Dive into Europa’s subsurface ocean and ...

A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ...

Project Hail Mary” landed in theaters this past Friday, and the movie has already begun to make waves in the box office. Adapted from science fiction Andy Weir’s novel of the same name, the ...

Provided they host thick, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, moons orbiting free-floating exoplanets could retain much of the ...

There is a category of planet that belongs to no star. It was thrown clear of its solar system early in the chaos of planetary formation, sent drifting into the galaxy’s cold interior with no sun to ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its very long journey to Jupiter. It won’t be until after this decade is ...

New Discoveries Reshaping Our Understanding of the Solar System. It feels like every few months, we get some new information ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

NASA Artemis 2 launches on 1 April 2025, the first crewed moon mission in over 50 years. Four astronauts will fly farther ...