Scientists have discovered unknown bacteria that have never been seen on Earth living inside a cabin on China 's Tiangong ...

This April, news reports linked the stinky gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ... Short of an alien radio message, spectra of chemicals produced exclusively ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...

A retired researcher has detected an unusual pulse in the light of nearby stars while looking for signs of extraterrestrial ...

"Until we can separate these signals more clearly, we have to be especially careful not to misinterpret them as signs of life ...

According to a new study published in the journal Nature, the object releases intense signals for two minutes every 44 ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Imaging exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens (SGL) faces major technical challenges, including solar corona noise, the sun’s quadrupole moment, and ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

The news made headlines. Researchers said... Exoplanet K2-18b: Home to alien life or noisy data? Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b.

Beyond our solar system, sub-Neptunes — gassy planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune — reign as the most common type of exoplanet observed in our galaxy. Despite their prevalence ...