Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

This is the center of the Heart Nebula or IC-1805 in the center is a cluster of stars known as Melotte 15. It is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is the ...

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the patterns that life follows as it spreads across our planet. According to a ...

It began the way many discoveries do — a tickling of curiosity in the back of someone’s mind. That someone was astronomer and communicator Carl Sagan. The thing doing the tickling was the trajectory ...