An alien planet has been discovered that may be "teeming with life" as scientists reveal the exact date we will know whether extraterrestrials exist could be "within one to two years". Lead researcher ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a planet full of aliens was ever discovered? It's pretty mind-boggling to think just how vast the universe could be, and how much life could actually exist ...

Scientists have peered through the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and discovered weather patterns "like something out of science fiction". For the first time ever, astronomers mapped ...

NASA has an ambitious “Super-Hubble” space camera project to seek out alien planets. Researchers are keen to identify and take pics of at least 25 potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system.

Scientists believe a mysterious black rock found on Mars could suggest aliens bathed in hot springs on the planet billions of years ago. Fresh research appears to have unearthed evidence that water ...

A “coherent” radio signal has been detected from an alien planet, suggesting it could be more likely to be habitable. The signal suggests that the planet has its own magnetic field, which is thought ...

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution. It's the Earth's atmosphere that he's usually ...

One of them is about 4.2 light years away - more than a whopping 24 trillion miles from Earth! Find out more here.