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 ...

Scientists have spotted new details on a distant planet, in a major breakthrough that could transform the search for alien life. The research has allowed scientists to see the atmosphere on a planet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA cannot rule out that 'potential unknown alien technology' is operating in the Earth's atmosphere, a new report has concluded. The study of flying saucers, UFOs and claims alien spaceships are ...

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 – ...

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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 ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that exoplanet TOI-561 b is surrounded by a thick atmosphere above a global magma ocean.

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 ...