New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

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 ...

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...