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

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

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 ...

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...

One of them is about 4.2 light years away - more than a whopping 24 trillion miles from Earth! Find out more here.

'Do all aliens really need sunlight?' ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...

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

T he success of Project Hail Mary hinged on a behind the scenes hail Mary: If the filmmakers didn’t get Ryan Gosling's ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new "hot ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life.

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have ...