Whenever I tell people I’ve discovered a new exoplanet, invariably the first question is: "Could we live there?" In some cases, it’s very easy to answer with an outright "No". Gas giants orbiting very ...

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, ...

A strange rock formation captured in NASA rover footage has ignited fresh viral speculation regarding alien life on the Red ...

Sagan's team created the greatest puzzle of all time, which you can only solve if your species understands the basic nature of the universe.

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is potentially the ...

A METEORITE that smashed though a roof and into a New Jersey bedroom may contain the chemical blueprints of alien life. Following analysis of the meteorite, which plummeted to earth in 2024, ...

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the ...

The United States government's recent release of hundreds of previously classified unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...