From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such signals have arrived, no RNA instructions lurk in the static, and no shared ...

NASA has officially confirmed the finding of its 6000th alien planet, furthering its quest to understand our galaxy and whether there could be life beyond Earth. And while the official count of ...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in its host star’s habitable zone less than 20 light-years from our own. What ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

Aliens on Earth? Ocean life discovery could offer clues to life on other planets Chemosynthetic life communities in the Northwest Pacific could offer glimpse of what life might look like on other ...

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 ...

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...