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

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

At the end of Alien: Covenant, David is given dominion over an entire spaceship full of human beings in cryostasis. We also see he has a number of facehuggers ready to pop into the fridge for future ...

NASA’s Pandora mission will study exoplanet atmospheres by separating star light from planet signals, helping scientists learn which distant worlds may have air, water, and signs of life ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...