Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

TOI-4616 b is an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf that offers a strong benchmark for studying atmospheric loss and ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...

Life beyond Earth: Using fresh data from ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists have found 45 rocky planets that might have the right ...

'As the number of exoplanets we've discovered increases, the question about life existing somewhere other than the Earth ...