Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

Even if human Martians are given protective space suits and sturdy underground shelters, this radiation is likely to still ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

A new study suggests we could be a step closer to figuring out if alien life is out there, trillions of miles away from Earth ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.