A photograph taken by a NASA astronaut has sparked fears it shows an extraterrestrial creature, but it’s just a photo of a potato.

WASHINGTON-Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape – covered with a perpetual ocean of magma and enveloped by a ...

SCIENTISTS have uncovered an absolute stinker 34 light-years from Earth. A newly discovered planet, called L 98-59 d, is among the stinkiest ever with a strong rank stench worse than rotten egg farts.

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have identified a first-of-its-kind planet characterised with a unique hellscape and atmosphere. The planet is found to be orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of ...

This video reacts to the Kurzgesagt episode about aliens under the ice and the possibility of life on rogue planets drifting through space. It explains how frozen worlds hidden oceans and internal ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbors life. In the last 30 ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.