Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

Three decades of finding new worlds Exoplanet science has moved fast since the first confirmed discoveries in the 1990s.

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...