We’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets — but not a single confirmed exomoon. That doesn’t mean they aren’t out there. In ...

A team of U.S. and U.K. researchers has outlined a new way to detectalien moons by tracking subtle flashes of reflected light during lunar eclipses in distant planetary systems. The method, designed ...

When we imagine alien life in books or on TV, we often think of planets like ours inhabited by extraterrestrial people. The Harry Vanderspeigle’s (Alan Tudyk) of the universe are basically human with ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...