In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

A new research paper, published in the Science Advances journal, has postulated that rocky planets like ours may be far more ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Three decades ago, in 1995, humankind discovered the first planet beyond the borders of our solar system. It's called 51 Pegasi b, and it spins around its main-sequence star (meaning not unlike our ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly for years in the most focused hunt yet for an ...

One of the most promising Earth-sized exoplanets may be far more barren than its early billing suggested, with new analyses pointing to a rocky world stripped of the protective gases that make a ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small, cool M-dwarfs—the kind astronomers often look to when searching for ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

"Alien: Earth" follows a group of soldiers as a ship carrying a Xenomorph crash-lands on Earth. The FX TV series is set in the same universe as the "Alien" movies. Here's when "Alien: Earth" takes ...

Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...