Astronomers have discovered a strange new world just 35 light-years from Earth – one permanently covered in a vast ocean of ...

The planet, named L 98-59 d, is covered with magma and ​enveloped by a noxious and fiercely hot, sulfur-rich atmosphere.

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the ...

A study of NASA’s Mars rover images has raised intriguing possibilities about extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Ohio ...

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Scientists have identified a potential new type of planet that has a sulphurous atmosphere and magma oceans evocative of ...

Unlike our Moon, they can keep water in oceans liquid for more than 4 billion years.

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large ...

Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could ...

The planet orbits a small red dwarf star around 35 light years from Earth and is five billion years old ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet with a giant underground ocean of magma that traps sulphur and may represent ...