A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

The most promising sign of life on other planets outside of our solar system has been discovered by astronomers - who are now ...

A chemical detected on a planet 124 light-years from Earth is produced by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

The numbers are staggering. Our Milky Way alone contains an estimated 100 to 400 billion stars, many of them hosting planets in the habitable zone. If even a tiny fraction of these planets develop ...

Learn why finding no obvious biosignatures on 40 to 80 exoplanets doesn’t mean that life doesn’t exist outside Earth. It just ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? An international team of researchers, led by ETH ...

Predictions using the Drake Equation(equation for calculating the estimated number of civilisations) suggest over 500 million planets in the habitable zone, just in the Milky Way, and 50 ...

Since then, astronomers have discovered that at least 70% of all stars in the Milky Way are this type ... existence of other planets within the habitable zone of Barnard's Star.