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

You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know nothing about. As long as you’ve got oxygen, water and food aboard your ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

One group of experts now say that looking for life on water and oxygen-rich planets could be a waste of time.

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...

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 ...