Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the search for alien life with new tools that detect UAPs and identify Earth-like exoplanets across the galaxy.

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has inched a little closer today with the news ...

then it suggests the same could be true of life evolving on other Earth-like planets in much the same way. To back up this assumption, he notes that an updated Bayesian analysis of the data found ...

"People thought it would take billion-dollar space missions to find other planets like Earth, but I think we have a shot at it from the ground." Marcy says finding planets from earth is just the ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

When our planet moves to the other side of the sun six months later, the Northern Hemisphere faces away. "Just like on the Earth, you have permanent darkness and permanent daylight at the polar ...