More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

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

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some have already been found. Thanks to rapidly advancing telescope technology, ...

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

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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 ...