JWST could potentially detect the signature of methyl halide compounds, produced by microbial life in Earth's ocean, on ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

While many of us are familiar with traditional courses like math, literature, or history, there exists a whole realm of ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

Seismic readings of the interior of Mars strongly suggest large quantities of water buried 6 to 12 miles underground.

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...