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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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...

What if the government offered you a one‑way ticket to another planet? This video explores the astonishing story of a secret ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

In its penultimate episode, Alien: Earth does something that only a show set on Earth could do: take the Xenomorph outside into the sun. While the movies all take place on dimly lit spaceships or dark ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of ...

Billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy have captured rogue alien planets that once cruised freely through interstellar space, a new study suggests. Many wandering alien worlds, which were ejected ...