In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Experts have discovered a fluffy “alien” planet where it rains sand in stunning new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. The bizarre-looking planet is officially known as exoplanet ...

NEW YORK, July 16: Astronomers have uncovered a previously undetected alien planet, Kepler-139f, by analyzing the orbits of known planets within the Kepler-139 star system. This hidden exoplanet is ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, literally and figuratively. This makes TOI-4465 b a rare case of a giant planet ...

Planets orbiting close to red dwarf stars risk getting hit by violent flares.Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) (Inside Science) — Shifting, slipping and colliding tectonic plates played an ...

Jake Parks is a freelance science writer and editor for Discover Magazine, who covers everything from the mysteries of the cosmos to the latest in medical research. View Full Profile. The newborn ...

Scientists have discovered a 'super–Earth' planet less than 20 light–years away, and it could have the right conditions for alien life. The exoplanet, dubbed GJ 251 c, is at least four times larger ...

Many experts believe that aliens exist in the universe, with the key elements needed to sustain life found on comets, ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in its host star’s habitable zone less than 20 light-years from our own. What ...

Aliens have always been a central theme in the imaginations of science fiction lovers and scientists alike, but NASA may have actually found evidence of life outside of Earth, and not on a planet, but ...