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.

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

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.

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 ...

Powerful telescopes could soon pick up signs indicating possible alien life on distant planets. Devices such as the James Webb space telescope, launched in 2021, are observing the cosmos in ...

Of course the vice-president is obsessed with extraterrestrials – look how bad things have gotten on Earth ...

Astronomers could finally show that alien life does exist on a distant planet following observations today. Planet K2-18b – which is more than twice as big as Earth and 120 light-years away – sits ...

An invisible world, a rectangular nebula, and a galaxy holding a smaller version of itself - here are the standouts IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar ...

Methane could be the first indication of life beyond Earth, scientists say. New research from UC Santa Cruz suggests that the gas could be a key ‘biosignature’ – an indicator of life on another planet ...