Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

Detective astronomers have discovered at least one unseen alien planet, and possibly another, around a distant star by observing the odd behavior of a planet already known to orbit the same star. The ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

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 ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...