To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

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Finding life elsewhere in the cosmos is no easy task. We’ve been searching for decades and, so far, we haven’t heard from anyone and we haven’t found anywhere that looks quite like home. While ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...

One group of experts now say that looking for life on water and oxygen-rich planets could be a waste of time.