Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

HUNTING for aliens is now a little easier as scientists discover a new sign that gives away life on far-off planets.

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...