On Earth, plants reflect green light — but on Kepler-186f, they’d likely glow deep red. The reason lies in physics: cooler ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small icy world in orbit around Saturn is emerging as one of the most compelling ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

The University of Arizona is opening a new exhibit this weekend that explores one of humanity's most enduring questions: Are ...