A privately funded space telescope with a mirror larger than Hubble’s could soon investigate 27 distant giant planets using a ...

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

Humans are considering the feasibility of terraforming our nearby planetary neighbor, so what if a distant alien civilization already had that idea and acted on it? A new paper suggests that looking ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...

Discover how WASP-189b, a scorching alien world, mirrors its star's composition, reshaping the search for Earth-like planets ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

Distinct days and nights have helped life flourish on Earth. But many alien worlds capable of supporting life may not have such clear delineations. Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but ...

NEW YORK — Radio waves streaming from an alien planet may offer a new tool in the hunt for life elsewhere in the universe. Astronomers have spotted these waves coming from what seems to be an aurora ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now ​found a world that ...

Taken from the May 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "The Earth through alien eyes". Aliens spying on us from across interstellar space is a classic trope of science ...