The most important aspect of this is that, with a possible atmosphere and liquid water, this planet lies within the habitable ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

But 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary rock – it’s a comet from beyond the solar system which greeted the Earth on December 19. It’s ...

Using JWST, scientists discovered PSR J2322-2650b — a carbon-rich, lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a pulsar — challenging ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red sprites. These rare upper-atmosphere lightning phenomena occur high above ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb warns interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be alien tech. Experts weigh in on planetary defence and the risks ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

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Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...