From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Planets needed to meet a list of specific criteria to make it onto the map A MAP of the stars could lead alien-hunters directly to where extra-terrestrial life may be hiding. Scientists have created a ...

A GOOGLE Maps user thinks they’ve found a ‘green portal to an alien planet’ near the Nazca lines in Peru. A screenshot of the unusual green dot was posted on Reddit and some users think it looks ...

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 ...

Scientists have spotted new details on a distant planet, in a major breakthrough that could transform the search for alien life. The research has allowed scientists to see the atmosphere on a planet ...

ASTRONOMERS have discovered a nearby 'super Earth' which could hold the key to finding alien life on distant worlds, with an expert claiming this is the type of discovery scientists had been "dreaming ...