Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take a new approach in its quest to find water-rich exoplanets. It will analyze ...

"Let's count down 11 recently discovered Earth-like planets! When Earth is no longer habitable, where could humans go? These ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

On Episode 137 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Jason Steffen, a member of the science team for the Kepler ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

Australia’s first female astronaut has revealed what she truly thinks about aliens and the possibility of life on other ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...