Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Perseverance Mars rover made an unbelievable discovery on the planet of Mars that doesn't seem to be from that planet. Indeed, a roughly ...

This not-so-little piece of equipment could change astronomy forever. And it could be about to find alien life. Maybe in a ...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...