When NASA hosts a major televised conference and mentions that it relates to the discovery of a distant exoplanet, ears start to prick up. NASA has the rumour mill spinning with news that it is to ...

SHOCKED astronomers have spotted a “rogue” planet that defies historic theories. A unique “inside out” planetary system with a distant rocky world turns our understanding of planet formation ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system. They detected in an alien planet's atmosphere the ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have identified a first-of-its-kind planet characterised with a unique hellscape and atmosphere. The planet is found to be orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of ...

Researchers have found the “strongest evidence yet” of alien life beyond our planet. While studying exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away, the team found signs of chemicals which are ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might even be within its host star’s “habitable zone”, but there’s a big problem ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression of the exoplanet named L 98-59 d, shown with a cutaway to reveal its interior, orbiting a red dwarf star, ...

An international research team, including astrophysicist Anjali Piette from the University of Birmingham, analysed data ...

A cosmic oddity being dubbed an alien megastructure by some might have a more realistic explanation – but the reality could be nearly as incredible. For nearly two years, the mystery of KIC 8462852 ...