Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

For years, the search for alien life has focused on Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. But this episode explores a ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

On the way, he encounters an alien life-form named Rocky and the fictional extraterrestrial micro-organisms Astrophage and Taumoeba. Professor Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at ...

Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

Trump has ordered a UFO data release. But if aliens exist, what would they think of us? - For generations, human beings have ...

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 ...