Scientists investigated microbial movement as a potential biosignature for detecting life on Mars and beyond, offering a ...

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

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