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, ...

Scientists have mapped the atmosphere a planet outside of our solar system in 3D for the first ever time. And they have found a world unlike anything we have ever seen: powerful winds that carry ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

NASA officials have previously spoken of the possibility of extraterrestrial life amid scientific uncertainty while ...

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

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...