Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

An astronomy professor explains what exoplanets are, why he keeps looking for them and how Israel intercepts missiles “in ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a ‘super-Earth’ less than 20 light-years away, which could potentially harbor extraterrestrial life. This exoplanet, six times larger than our ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away ...