Need a reminder of what's up in the farthest frontier of 'Star Trek' before 'Starfleet Academy'? Class is now in session.

Within a few dozen light years of the Sun, the sky is crowded with stars that could, in principle, host living worlds. I want ...

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

For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

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

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...

Astronomers investigating 3I/ATLAS suggest its unique trajectory allows interstellar observers to detect Earth's industrial ...

But can we use telescopes to detect whether any of these distant worlds also harbour life? A promising method is to analyse the gases present in the atmospheres of these planets. We now know of more ...

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...