British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

An alien star has now been discovered to have an extra planet that astronomers so far cannot explain. A fourth planet has been imaged orbiting the bright, very young star HR 8799, nearly 130 ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

Like cosmic sleuths with a time machine, astronomers conducted a thorough re-analysis of old data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1998, and found visual evidence for two alien planets ...

A Canadian-led team took a closer look and revealed how bizarre this 'super-puff' exoplanet is We've heard of super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, and hot Jupiters, but how about 'cotton-candy' planets? New ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest of their kind ever ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found two planets similar in size to Earth and within the habitable zone of star TOI 700 . We might temper our excitement though, as this is not ...