Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life ...

When Aomawa Shields temporarily left astronomy in the 1990s for a life in the theater, no one knew whether planets existed beyond our solar system. By the time she returned to academia 11 years later, ...

Thomas Beatty describes the search for life on other planets and the role of telescopes. Thomas Beatty, assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do astronomers look for signs of life on ...