Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

Astronomers may have found the strongest hint of life beyond Earth thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Last week, scientists announced they found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life beyond our solar system. However, the ...

Lucian of Samosatam was probably the first to write about travel to outer space and aliens in his 160 AD work: "A True Story" ...

NASA has discovered molecules known to come exclusively from life in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b, suggesting the ...

A new study shows TOI-270 d is a fiery rocky exoplanet, offering fresh insight into the galaxy’s most common planet type.

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars.