Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven advanced technology partners for its next major mission, the Habitable Worlds ...

A stratum of molten rock located deep within certain rocky planets may be exerting influence beyond merely shaping their internal structures. Recent research suggests that these concealed magma oceans ...

Astronomers have discovered 41 new alien planets in one sweep by analyzing how each world gravitationally yanks on its neighbors. The newly confirmed exoplanets were spotted by NASA's prolific Kepler ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

Is there life on other planets? This is a question that humanity has been trying to answer for a very long time now. We haven’t found a single piece of direct evidence proving that it is there, but ...

NASA has officially confirmed the finding of its 6000th alien planet, furthering its quest to understand our galaxy and whether there could be life beyond Earth. And while the official count of ...