To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

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In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...