Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system has air, even though it orbits precariously close to its star. The exoplanet, ...

What if the government offered you a one‑way ticket to another planet? This video explores the astonishing story of a secret human‑alien exchange mission that sent astronauts 40 light years from Earth ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.