And with experts admitting that it is highly unlikely that our planet is the only one bearing intelligent life forms, the ...

Seems unintuitive, but the mounting list of lifeless planets might be exactly what scientists need to figure out how common ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Dune. Star Wars. Alien. Science fiction movies love alien worlds, and so do we. But how do scientists find planets outside ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech "The spectacle would be beautiful because every now and then, you would see another planet -- maybe about as big as twice the moon -- in the sky depending on which planet ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

No Man’s Sky already lets players dig deep into the terrain of its near-infinite universe of planets, but now there ... dig up the “skeletal remains of alien creatures.” ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called a biosignature. On Earth, DMS is mostly produced by bacteria and ...

Habitable zones around stars are usually easy to define for stellar bodies like the sun and other ... planets constantly shrinking around these dead stars. Whyte and colleagues wanted to know if a ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ... the subtle shapes of orbits of Earth-size planets around other stars." The team's research was published on ...