The strangest alien worlds ever discovered reveal just how extreme planets beyond our Solar System can become, from nearby ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...

A newly discovered baby planet has been identified as the youngest known exoplanet in the galaxy. Approximately one million years old, this unprecedented discovery represents the youngest alien world ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes extraterrestrial life plausible. But plausibility is not proof. Despite decades of ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has helped astronomers achieve a world first: detecting radio signals directly from a planet ...

Scientists have traced a series of mysterious radio signals to a gigantic alien world 63 light-years from Earth.

You've probably heard the theory before – it's that the octopus is not from earth. They're aliens. They are so different from anything else on this planet, that they must have come from a different ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...