Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Earth may be the only planet in the universe that we know to support life. However, astronomers have identified several alien exoplanets that could have even better environments, making them ...

Smile: you might be some alien‘s favourite character on the reality TV show called Earth. A new scientific report suggests that there are 29 planets in our cosmic neighbourhood where alien life could ...

Scientists searched 27 exoplanets for alien technology using planetary eclipses, revealing a new way SETI hunts signals ...

A Canadian-led team took a closer look and revealed how bizarre this 'super-puff' exoplanet is We've heard of super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, and hot Jupiters, but how about 'cotton-candy' planets? New ...

A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

Two continent-sized clumps of rock near Earth's core have remained a mystery for years. Could they be pieces of an alien planet? Four and a half billion years ago, shortly after the Earth had first ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that high-pressure reactions between hydrogen and molten rock within sub-Neptunes ...