An alien planet has been discovered that may be "teeming with life" as scientists reveal the exact date we will know whether extraterrestrials exist could be "within one to two years". Lead researcher ...

Alien life could take many different forms, but one possibility is captivating scientists: alien "plants". What would they look like? And how could we find them? On the Orion arm of the Milky Way ...

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution. It's the Earth's atmosphere that he's usually ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a planet full of aliens was ever discovered? It's pretty mind-boggling to think just how vast the universe could be, and how much life could actually exist ...

Scientists have peered through the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and discovered weather patterns "like something out of science fiction". For the first time ever, astronomers mapped ...

alien beings living on a distant world around another star would look 'just like animals on Earth' and be formed from the same processes, an astrobiologist claims. Arik Kershenbaum, author of a new ...

A TERRIFYING alien planet that "rains glass" lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a "nightmare world" by Nasa, the giant exoplanet has staggeringly fast winds that reach up to 5,400mph.

You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know nothing about. As long as you’ve got oxygen, water and food aboard your ...