"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

Despite being such an enduring videogame setting, the great cosmic void beyond our planet is often treated as window dressing: an excuse to meet funky alien races ... to sims like Elite Dangerous ...

A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...

NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at ...