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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know nothing about. As long as you’ve got oxygen, water and food aboard your ...