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” ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning jewel—a planet around a tiny red dwarf star that may have the right conditions to ...

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

The "Alien" timeline has become quite busy in the last decade, thanks to Ridley Scott's 2010s prequels and 2024's "Alien: Romulus." So, audiences might be confused about when the new TV series, "Alien ...

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 ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...