A newly discovered baby planet has been identified as the youngest known exoplanet in the galaxy. Approximately one million years old, this unprecedented discovery represents the youngest alien world ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes ...

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 ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has helped astronomers achieve a world first: detecting radio signals directly from a planet outside our Solar System. And before anyone starts preparing for an alien ...

Scientists have traced a series of mysterious radio signals to a gigantic alien world 63 light-years from Earth.

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...

You've probably heard the theory before – it's that the octopus is not from earth. They're aliens. They are so different from anything else on this planet, that they must have come from a different ...

A new baby planet has been found, which is the youngest exoplanet in the galaxy as we know it. Around one million years old, the new find is the youngest alien planet ever seen by space explorers, and ...