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

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Researchers behind the study hope that it could provide a foundation for the study of those stars, and examination of whether they might support alien worlds. Eventually, the stars and the planets ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Are we alone in this universe? Is there intelligent life out there? Or are they living among us? Humans have wondered about ...

Supporters of planetary colonization argue that becoming a multi-planet species could safeguard us from potentially ...

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 ...

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...