The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

Star Trek is packed with all sorts of alien, both on the Enterprise and throughout the final frontier, and these are the ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

A newly identifiedplanetary system is forcing astronomers to rethink how worlds form and evolve, as a rocky planet appears where no such object should exist, according to a study published in Science.

The scientific wonderers at What If investigate a newly found world in a faraway star system that might actually have the right ingredients for life.

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

Star Wars used to be the end-all, be-all in space sci-fi, but in the years since the original trilogy, others have rushed in ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

Ridley Scott's Alien is widely considered the ultimate sci-fi horror movie, but a few genre films, like The Fly and The Thing, are even better.

Explore how cutting edge telescopes, AI, and new detection methods are transforming the extraterrestrial life search and ...