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

Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

When it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life, research focuses on the so-called habitable zone of stars. This may ...

The observatory will combine tech from NASA's most powerful space telescopes.

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

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 ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

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 ...