Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana studies planets beyond our solar system in the search for alien life. But he now faces ...

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When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of biology because they are often produced by living microbes. However, ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the presence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s habitable zone, marking a major milestone in the search for life beyond ...

Natural sorting of ocean salts in icy vents on Saturn’s moon could aid the search for life, researchers report. With a global ocean of liquid water below a thick crust of ice, Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...

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A rocky world orbiting within its star’s habitable zone may be surrounded by a helium-rich atmosphere, providing the strongest evidence yet that planets with Earth-like conditions could support life ...

Scientists around the world have spent decades pointing radio telescopes at the sky, hoping to catch that one signal proving we’re not alone in the universe. But now researchers at SETI are asking: ...