So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

HUNTING for aliens is now a little easier as scientists discover a new sign that gives away life on far-off planets.

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

The team found that larger planets on non-circular orbits are more likely to have grown in more turbulent home systems. To ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Exoplanets may harbor alien life; scientists seek biosignatures through advanced exploration. Could they lead to humanity's ...