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.

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

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 ...

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’ ...

What if the government offered you a one‑way ticket to another planet? This video explores the astonishing story of a secret human‑alien exchange mission that sent astronauts 40 light years from Earth ...

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 ...

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 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 ...