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 have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

For years, the search for alien life has focused on Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. But this episode explores a ...

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

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known ...

Billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy have captured rogue alien planets that once cruised freely through interstellar space, a new study suggests. Many wandering alien worlds, which were ejected ...

An international research team, including astrophysicist Anjali Piette from the University of Birmingham, analysed data ...

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

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...

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

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...