Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of ...

Science fiction has imagined everything from little green men to tentacled monsters—but real biology may offer clearer clues. Evolution follows universal rules, meaning alien life on Earth-like ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

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 ...

New research finds that certain large exoplanets are shrinking due to internal processes, creating an abundance of rocky 'super-Earths'. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...