Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Astronomers have used four massive telescopes in Chile to look into a planet's ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

Scientists reveal one key way we might have missed signals from aliens - ‘Smearing’ of signals could mean that there are messages we are missing, researchers say ...

Expedition imagines what humans might encounter when exploring an alien world. In this video we dive into the planet’s ...