Earth's lifespan for life is finite. In about five billion years, our Sun will transform into a red giant and…
The exoplanet discoveries have been coming fast and furious this week, as astronomers announced a new set of curious worlds…
Can you imagine a world that is 17 times as massive as Earth, but still rocky? Or two planets that…
What a multitude of worlds! A new study suggests that the Milky Way could host 100 million planets with complex life,…
Titan -- that smoggy, orangy moon circling Saturn -- is of great interest to exobiologists because its chemistry could be…
During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer…
After several months with their telescope on the sidelines, the Kepler space telescope team has happy news to report: the…
Chalk up another benchmark in the fascinating and growing menagerie of extra-solar planets. This week, an international team of researchers…
They’re nearby, they’re common and — at least in the latest exoplanet newsflashes hot off the cyber-press — they’re hot.…
Between the time you got to work this morning and the time you leave today -- assuming an eight-hour work…