Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cosmic radiation could be a boon for subsurface life on worlds such as Europa (left), Mars (center) and Enceladus (right), ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study suggests that cosmic rays could enable life to exist outside of traditional habitable ...

Accelerated to high energies, the particles making up cosmic rays aren’t exactly friendly to life. At least, not to life as we know it. According to a new theory, they could spark a chain of reactions ...

The traditional astrophysical recipe for life as we know it is quite simple: Get a rocky, gas-shrouded world in a “habitable zone” orbit around a star so that it’s not too hot or too cold. Then just ...