As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, or ...

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

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Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Alien life on a new planet “may not have DNA like humans but might walk on two legs”, experts have revealed. It follows the discovery of an extraterrestrial world around 120 light years away from ...

NASA’s Pandora mission will study exoplanet atmospheres by separating star light from planet signals, helping scientists learn which distant worlds may have air, water, and signs of life ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images Astronomers have discovered that ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery—for the first time, scientists have directly observed two alien planets ...

Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...