Experts from the Moscow State University’s Research Institute of Nuclear Physics said one of their satellites spotted several high-power “light explosions” dozens of kilometres above the Earth’s ...

The early atmospheres of rocky planets are thought to form mostly from gases released from the surface of the planet as a result of the intense heating during the accretion of planetary building ...

Methane could be the first indication of life beyond Earth, scientists say. New research from UC Santa Cruz suggests that the gas could be a key ‘biosignature’ – an indicator of life on another planet ...

Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of one of the first alien planets ever identified by astronomers. Advances in the technique used to scan the atmosphere of this "hot Jupiter" could help ...

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

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution. It's the Earth's atmosphere that he's usually ...

ALIEN life could be producing an Earth-like gas on Venus, our closest space neighbour. The scorching “hell planet” would instantly kill a human, with surface temperatures reaching 470C – and pressure ...

Venus was once thought to be similar in condition to Earth and is a similar size. But over the course of its 4.6 billion year history, greenhouse gasses have taken its toll on the boiling hot planet – ...