Scientists have seen an atmosphere around a rocky, potentially habitable planet for the first time – marking a major milestone in the search for alien life. As well as being a major discovery in ...

The search for alien life has been boosted after an atmosphere was detected surrounding an Earth-like planet for the first ...

A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home last year contains the chemistry of alien life, according to ...

Decades before blockbuster CGI aliens, artist Wayne Barlowe designed an entire ecosystem for his book "Expedition" — later ...

Scientists have made a historic breakthrough. They have found a planet that might be the closest to supporting life.

The sci-fi movie “Disclosure Day” predicts that our reaction to intelligent alien life will be chaotic. But what does the ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

The rocky exoplanet depicted here in this artist’s illustration, with a fuzzy atmosphere. (Melissa Weiss/CfA) As the famous ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Alas, it’s not a study-abroad course – yet – but exoplanets may provide insight into how life formed on Earth.

Astronomers have identified GJ 3378b, a super-Earth located 25 light-years away, in the habitable zone of its star, raising ...