Astronomers have found nearly 6,000 exoplanets orbiting other stars. But for every confirmed detection, there are countless mere hints, inconclusive observations that could just as well be blips of ...

Project Serpo: The Secret 10-Year Mission to a Planet 40 Light Years Away What if you were offered the opportunity to visit another planet? You get to experience the culture of an alien race, explore ...

Scientists have found a nearby planet that appears to be teeming with life, and now Earth's most advanced computer programs revealed what it could look like. The planet, known by astronomers as K2-18b ...

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The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among several scientists in recent months. According to models from a group of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed. This exoplanet, ...

This week NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provided the first direct image of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn's, orbiting the young star TWA 7. This landmark observation, detailed in ...

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly. A glimpse of a planet in its star’s habitable zone — ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...

Sci-Fi games offer deep exploration and resource management Being stranded on alien planets is a common theme in games Titles like The Solus Project, Planet Nomads, & No Man's Sky offer unique ...