According to a new scientific hypothesis, alien civilisations may only become detectable at the moment of their collapse.

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

In its penultimate episode, Alien: Earth does something that only a show set on Earth could do: take the Xenomorph outside into the sun. While the movies all take place on dimly lit spaceships or dark ...

Are some planets actually born from alien wanderers drifting through space? :milky_way: A new theory suggests that interstellar objects like comet 3I/ATLAS might be seeding young star systems, ...

This quiz invites you to embark on a journey across the galaxy, exploring the science and wonder behind exoplanet discovery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth through Episode 6, as well as the rest of the Alien movie series. Alien: Resurrection, the fourth movie in the Alien ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are closely examining a distant Earth-like planet in hopes of uncovering signs of life beyond our solar system. The planet, known as TRAPPIST-1e, ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

Alien: Earth has already made some interesting moves for the Alien franchise, taking the terrifying xenomorph universe in a direction it’s never really explored before… on Earth. With Noah Hawley at ...