But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a ‘super-Earth’ less than 20 light-years away, which could potentially harbor extraterrestrial life. This exoplanet, six times larger than our ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away ...