The groundbreaking research is being described as the "strongest evidence yet" of life in outer space. The study was ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Those, in turn, combined to form comets, asteroids and planets, including ours. Thus young Earth, Ciesla theorizes, was infused with organic molecules fabricated in space. Additional organic ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

The idea that the seeds of life may have originated on another planet is far from new, but is there any value to it?

Washington DC: A team of researchers led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan claimed on Thursday to have ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...