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

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

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

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

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

Alpha Centauri may have a "disappearing planet', new James Webb Space Telescope observations hint. If confirmed, it could be the closest alien planet to Earth that orbits in its star's habitable zone.

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but likely as 'grey sludge' ...

What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system has air, even though it orbits precariously close to its star. The exoplanet, ...