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

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

A new generation instrument designed to probe the atmospheres of distant worlds is nearing operational readiness, marking a ...

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond ...

Scientists list the 45 places we are most likely to find alien life - List includes some famous worlds ...