What if the government offered you a one‑way ticket to another planet? This video explores the astonishing story of a secret human‑alien exchange mission that sent astronauts 40 light years from Earth ...

Using JWST, scientists discovered PSR J2322-2650b — a carbon-rich, lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a pulsar — challenging ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some have already been found. Thanks to rapidly advancing telescope technology, ...

Did NASA discover city lights on an alien planet? This video explores the implications and details of the findings that suggest the presence of artificial light sources on a distant exoplanet. The ...

Near the start of the Alien: Covenant film, the crew intercepts a mysterious signal coming from Planet 4 and the acting captain, Chris Oram redirects the USCSS Covenant there, seeing it as possibly a ...

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Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...