With next-generation telescopes coming online, we’re about to learn more than ever about planets beyond our solar system. But before we search for alien life, we need to know what worlds are actually ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Nearly two dozen ‘Earth-like’ planets that could be crawling with alien life have been identified by scientists. Exoplanets are what scientists call worlds that orbit other stars (though some are ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply interesting from the truly promising. A new study highlights a select group of rocky ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have identified just under 50 rocky worlds most likely to be habitable out of ...