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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

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

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

Detective astronomers have discovered at least one unseen alien planet, and possibly another, around a distant star by observing the odd behavior of a planet already known to orbit the same star. The ...

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 ...