A newly discovered baby planet has been identified as the youngest known exoplanet in the galaxy. Approximately one million years old, this unprecedented discovery represents the youngest alien world ...

If life exists elsewhere, it might not be on worlds like Earth. Here are some of the more peculiar places scientists are ...

A breakthrough in telescope imaging could reveal countless alien worlds that have been hiding in plain sight. Scientists developed a new technique that uses a digital twin of the James Webb Space ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric models. By directly imaging Epsilon Indi Ab with the James Webb Space ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet from ...

A rocky world orbiting within its star’s habitable zone may be surrounded by a helium-rich atmosphere, providing the strongest evidence yet that planets with Earth-like conditions could support life ...

You've probably heard the theory before – it's that the octopus is not from earth. They're aliens. They are so different from anything else on this planet, that they must have come from a different ...