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

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

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.