A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is ...

For years, astronomers have searched for habitable exoplanets around main-sequence stars similar to the Sun. These stars provide stable energy for billions of years, making them prime candidates for ...

While the current atmosphere of Mars is too cold and thick to support liquid water, NASA missions over the years have found ...

Wolf 359, a red dwarf star just 7.8 light-years away, could host planets, but extreme X-ray and ultraviolet radiation make ...

And because it's so close, he adds, there "hope for future space missions to obtain an image of ... location in a habitable zone and relatively close proximity to Earth, this planet could play ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

She said a key difference in the star/planet systems her team studied—a variation responsible for a planetary climate being habitable or not—was the rotational characteristics of the planets.

Located 20 light-years away, it orbits within the habitable zone of a star similar ... there is hope for future missions to capture an image of it," Dr Cretignier stated. However, unlike Earth's ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...