Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.
An international team of astrophysicists has imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them.
A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbour was once...
Astronomers have discovered that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far-ultraviolet (far-UV) radiation levels much higher than...
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now...
A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound...
An international team of astronomers led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has used data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover...
In the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, scientists have traditionally looked for planets with liquid water at their surface. But, rather...
Scientists from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard ̽»¨Ö±²¥, and the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which...
Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for...
A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building...
What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019...
