When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

:rocket: Could aliens be hiding on a frozen twin of Earth? NASA has just discovered a rocky exoplanet that’s remarkably ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...

More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...