Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such signals have arrived, no RNA instructions lurk in the static, and no shared ...

The discovery of a possible "super-Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an ...

A new discovery made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may be the weirdest exoplanet yet. The planet, designated PSR J2322-2650b, has an atmosphere unlike any other yet discovered, and the ...

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 ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

The Penn State-led Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby stars. Pictured: The HPF instrument during installation in its ...