It’s a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant exoplanet located about 124 light years away from us, and one of the most ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

Scientists searching for advanced alien civilizations have detected a mysterious signal in data from the world's largest ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time. If life spreads and changes planetary environments, it could leave behind ...

It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet from ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Radio waves ...

A new study from researchers in Japan suggests that a better way to search for alien life might be to look for suspiciously similar planets that are close to each other. The idea is that if life has ...