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 ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes ...

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

A message from aliens? Magnetic fields? Or simply a hoax? For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals that appear to come directly from an exoplanet. The giant planet, known as Beta ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has helped astronomers achieve a world first: detecting radio signals directly from a planet ...

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

Scientists have traced a series of mysterious radio signals to a gigantic alien world 63 light-years from Earth.

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...

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 ...