This research may help us identify habitable planets around other stars. Alien planets and moons experience rainfall just like Earth. Still, scientists were surprised to learn that raindrops on these ...

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

After years of searching for elusive 'exomoons', astronomers have discovered a planetary nursery that looks to be forming several of them. Using an array of powerful radio telescopes high in the ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

U.S. scientists have come up with two new tools to determine which moons and planets in the universe are most likely to harbour alien life. And they have used those tools to rank many other planets ...

The search for alien life has moved from planets to moons. This video dives into the hidden, globe-spanning oceans beneath ...

Advanced alien civilisations, if they exist, could satisfy the energy needs of their home planet by migrating near miniature black holes and trapping the potentially unlimited energy around them, ...

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 ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has long been of interest to NASA because they believe it could host an ocean underneath its ...