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.

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

Scientists have made an exciting and potentially ground-breaking discovery in the search for alien life, after detecting signs of a gas produced only by living organisms on a distant water planet.

Scientists have identified a new clue in the hunt for alien life on distant planets. A team from the University of Birmingham and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe far-off worlds with ...

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 ...

SCIENTISTS believe they will find alien life on thousands of planets in the next ten to 20 years. A task force of experts from the UK, US and Switzerland, named the Origins Federation, launched ...

Scientists have found an alien planet spiralling to its death around an ageing star, which they say could indicate how Earth will eventually meet its end. The discovery marks the first-ever time that ...

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 ...

09:39, Thu, Jan 16, 2025 Updated: 09:39, Thu, Jan 16, 2025 Scientists have discovered a terrifying alien planet that, while it may look like Earth, conceals some deadly conditions that have led NASA ...

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 ...

Planets where alien life could be able to observe human activity on Earth have been identified by scientists. Astronomers from Cornell University estimate there are 29 potentially habitable planets in ...

Humanity has spent a lot of time looking for signs of extraterrestrial life, but less time has been spent pondering whether alien life could be looking for us – until now. Astronomers in New York have ...