Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

Scientists have mapped the atmosphere a planet outside of our solar system in 3D for the first ever time. And they have found a world unlike anything we have ever seen: powerful winds that carry ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

A new study suggests alien life may be easier to detect through clusters of similar planets rather than single biosignatures.

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

The aliens from Mars attacked in waves quickly overpowering Earth’s human defenses with their far superior technology. Then ...