A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

When a scientific controversy or breakthrough dominates headlines, press officers and journalists often quote a handful of ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

For years, the search for alien life has focused on Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. But this episode explores a more surprising possibility: giant moons circling massive worlds may offer ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered vast hidden magma systems beneath the surface of Mars, marking an “unexpected discovery” leading the researchers closer to finding ...

The curious minds at What If have explored the discovery of a planet that could potentially host alien life.

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

What was once considered fringe or conspiratorial has in recent months popped up everywhere from the White House to the ...

Do not shout ‘alien!’” Amid surge of public interest in UFOs or UAP, one group updated its rules for how news of ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, astronomers claim they have directly measured the magnetic fields of multiple planets beyond our solar system — potentially providing a crucial new tool in the search ...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The ...