Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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

Contacting extraterrestrial life was a mission that was taken seriously by astronomers and the scientific community. A new investigation found that we could calculate the distance to the nearest alien ...

A growing number of studies have cast doubt on earlier claims about signs of life on K2-18b, a planet 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation, concluding that the available data doesn’t support ...

Imagine a planet twice as wide as Earth, covered in an ocean that smells like sweet cabbage. Every day, a faint red star warms this ocean world and the uncountable masses of hungry, plankton-like ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth. When you ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...