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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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 ...

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 ...

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

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...