Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

One of them is about 4.2 light years away - more than a whopping 24 trillion miles from Earth! Find out more here.

NASA has an ambitious “Super-Hubble” space camera project to seek out alien planets. Researchers are keen to identify and take pics of at least 25 potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system.

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

Scientists have discovered natural space weather stations that exist around distant stars because these stations can ...

Investor excitement around the SpaceX IPO is colliding with peak Elon Musk futurism after a new social media post featuring ...

Scientists list the 45 places we are most likely to find alien life - List includes some famous worlds ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

Scientists have identified a new clue in the hunt for alien life on distant planets. A team from the University of Birmingham and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe far-off worlds with ...

Scientists have found an alien planet spiralling to its death around an ageing star, which they say could indicate how Earth will eventually meet its end. The discovery marks the first-ever time that ...

Humanity has spent a lot of time looking for signs of extraterrestrial life, but less time has been spent pondering whether alien life could be looking for us – until now. Astronomers in New York have ...