Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

The search for life on another planet is one of the most exciting things in astrophysics. As humanity has searched the ...

A leading scientist tells the BBC's science correspondent Pallab Ghosh that the prospect of finding alien life is not far away. But what would a discovery of this magnitude mean for the human race?

NASA is quietly turning a long‑range dream into hardware, backing a suite of technologies for a so‑called “Super Hubble” that would put the search for alien life at the center of its next flagship ...