Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some have already been found. Thanks to rapidly advancing telescope technology, ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns Hopkins ...

Billions of years ago, another planet smashed into Earth. An event of this epicness could have created our Moon. It also ...

Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way to “see” the planet’s atmosphere from this entangled light. When you ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But data from Nasa’s orbiters suggests there are karst caves – underground bunkers ...

Jackson's Star is the newest location introduced in Alien: Romulus, and here is everything that the franchise has revealed about the mining colony planet that acts as one of the main settings of the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system has air, even though it orbits precariously close to its star. The exoplanet, ...