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

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

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 ...

For decades, science fiction treated alien planets like Earth with a different paint job. This video shows how real exoplanet discoveries changed that, forcing writers to imagine harsher climates, ...

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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures ...