In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar neighbor, which lies just 4.2 light-years away — thanks to a powerful new ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly. A glimpse of a planet in its star’s habitable zone — ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule. When you purchase ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

The majority of Americans believe there there is extraterrestrial life. Aliens might marvel at earth's natural beauty but wonder why we are not protecting it.