Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

Astronomers have reportedly narrowed the search for extraterrestrial life to a focused list of 45 rocky exoplanets. Out of ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

'Do all aliens really need sunlight?' ...

Scientists list the 45 places we are most likely to find alien life - List includes some famous worlds ...

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

For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...