The alien ship travelling towards Earth can attack us between November and December, Avi Loeb claims. He also thinks it is ...

A giant planet more than 1,000 light-years away has an atmosphere that extends farther on one side than the other.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...

Our galaxy is full of strange worlds, but what would happen if we could bring some of them into our own Solar System? Moving ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has helped astronomers achieve a world first: detecting radio signals directly from a planet ...

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

Honeycomb: The World Beyond impresses in the test with genuine genetic research, but completely forgoes violence and a co-op ...

On Earth, a cloudy morning giving way to a clear evening is unremarkable, the kind of forecast that barely warrants a glance at the weather app. On a gas giant orbiting a star nearly 700 light-years ...

FOR the first time, astronomers have seen the glow of alien planets circling sun-like stars. “This is a new era,” says the leader of one of the teams, Drake Deming from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...