From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that exoplanet TOI-561 b is surrounded by a thick atmosphere above a global magma ocean.

The exoplanet, dubbed PSR J2322-2650 b, has a helium-and-carbon atmosphere, something researchers say they've never seen ...

Did NASA discover city lights on an alien planet? This video explores the implications and details of the findings that ...

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

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

Three decades ago, in 1995, humankind discovered the first planet beyond the borders of our solar system. It's called 51 Pegasi b, and it spins around its main-sequence star (meaning not unlike our ...

NASA Planetary Protection Officer Lisa Pratt is worried about Elon Musk having sent a Roadster into orbit.