Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing ...

Venus provides invaluable insights into the search for life on other planets, according to a new study from UC Riverside.

Studying and eventually understanding our planet Venus remains our best hope for characterizing earth-mass planets circling ...

At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life ...

If we discover alien life, what will it look like? We have no way of knowing ... that circle dim red stars smaller than our sun, a new study suggests. The latest cataloging effort is in part ...

Purple bacteria that thrive in low-energy red or infrared light with a simpler method of photosynthesis could cover another ...

While fields, forests and jungles have made green the color most associated with surface life on Earth, that may not be the case for other planets, according to a new study from researchers at ...