The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and Facebook, named UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Rebecca Jensen-Clem and former ...

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The Search Is Ongoing . Maybe alien civilizations watch us from afar, or perhaps only microbes gather in some distant world. Every new mission and space technology fuels the hunt, ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...

Are we alone? Scientists investigate the rarity of life on Earth-like planets with groundbreaking telescopes and methods.

Astronomers have shared new direct images of planets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani systems. These were obtained using the ...