Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Water may not be essential to support life, and an entirely different type of liquid could do the same in alien worlds, a new study claims. Until now, water has been considered a requirement for life ...

It's been more than four years now since the United States became the first nation in the world to achieve powered flight on another planet. Responsible for that is a little helicopter-style drone ...

When we gaze into the vastness of outer space, we often wonder if life exists beyond our terrestrial world. In the DC Universe, the answer is a definite yes. DC Comics features numerous alien races ...