The new exoplanet Elias 2-24 b is the youngest ever discovered, still forming in a cloud of debris around a young star just ...

Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. A recent ...

Scientists believe life on alien worlds may be constrained by the same factors as on our planet.

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

While long-fabled technologies like Smell-O-Vision are still a long way off from ever being a reality, astronomers can still technically smell stuff deep in space without actually having to get a ...

The picture-perfect launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could push forward the space agency’s ultimate search for life across the Milky Way, says a leading astronomer.

Investor excitement around the SpaceX IPO is colliding with peak Elon Musk futurism after a new social media post featuring his musings about light-speed travel and exploring alien worlds. In a social ...

When/if alien life ever cruises toward Earth in big spaceships, we’re probably not just going to see it; we’re going to hear it via narrow radio signals. If an extraterrestrial civilization wanted to ...

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...

Using the same planet-hunting techniques as Earth astronomers, would inhabitants of a planet hundreds of light-years away be able to detect Earth? Or would the gas giants overpower their observations?