Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

A new study suggests alien life may be easier to detect through clusters of similar planets rather than single biosignatures.

Billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy have captured rogue alien planets that once cruised freely through interstellar space, a new study suggests. Many wandering alien worlds, which were ejected ...

We finally get our first look at the follow-up to 2014's Alien: Isolation, with a trailer teasing a shift planetside for the ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...