On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

The flares may heat up and inflate the planet's atmosphere, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Being lashed by these ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified TOI-1846 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 154 light-years away.