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Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

The mysterious interstellar object that's been flying through the solar system may be leaving behind the building blocks of life on our neighboring worlds. Scans of 3I/ATLAS have revealed two key ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could be lurking in the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood, quietly ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

Scientists say they have found the strongest evidence yet of life on another planet beyond Earth's solar system. They made the discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope. We speak with Nikku ...