Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

James Webb reveals how powerful winds and extreme temperature differences create an unusual atmospheric bulge on the giant ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

A privately funded space telescope with a mirror larger than Hubble’s could soon investigate 27 distant giant planets using a ...

A rocky planet exposed to extreme heat from its star appears to reflect nearly three-quarters of the starlight that reaches ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

Weather maps of distant planets are a step closer after the James Webb Space Telescope distinguished hotter and cooler ...

Typically, when we think of exoplanets, we think of neat spheres floating directly in front of their star, which acts as a ...

Investor excitement around the SpaceX IPO is colliding with peak Elon Musk futurism after a new social media post featuring his musings about light-speed travel and exploring alien worlds. In a social ...

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...