In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Only 43 (to date) have been observed directly (about 0.5% of them). Most are discovered through indirect means, such as ...

An alien planet has been discovered that may be "teeming with life" as scientists reveal the exact date we will know whether extraterrestrials exist could be "within one to two years". Lead ...

Their claims were based on the detection of sulfur-based gases in an alien planet's atmosphere — gases typically linked to biological processes on Earth. However, a quick independent analysis of ...

But before you go picturing an advanced race of aliens, if anything is indeed living on the planet, it would likely be non-sentient microorganisms akin to Earth's phytoplankton. Some, called rogue ...

detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes. The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl ...