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

Scientists Say Saturn’s Moon Could Host Alien Life ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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

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 ...

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

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures ...

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

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

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 ...

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