A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one of the best alien worlds yet on which to search ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

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Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

SETI AIR alumnus Mike von der Nahmer has been selected as a resident artist in the Xu Bing Space Art Residency Program, part ...

Three decades ago, in 1995, humankind discovered the first planet beyond the borders of our solar system. It's called 51 Pegasi b, and it spins around its main-sequence star (meaning not unlike our ...