The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

A water world ruled by octopus-like creatures. A planet divided by light and dark where the sun never rises. And a lava hell where molten rock rains from the sky. These are not descriptions of foreign ...

Earth may be special because of its water, but not in the way you may think. A new study published in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that we may actually have less of ...

Located in the Lyra constellation, the Super Earth planet completes an orbit of its nearby star every 207.5 days SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s ...

THIS week’s UFO hearing for US congress revealed that experts think unidentified aerial phenomena are out there and they even have footage. If alien life does exist, we still don’t know where it comes ...

In a 'transformational' discovery, scientists have discovered the strongest evidence of life on a distant alien planet. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found huge ...

News recently broke that scientists discovered an alien planet that had the highest ever chances of human life, and it's only 124 light years away. While that may be out of reach for humans now, the ...

What astronomers thought were a pair of potentially life-friendly alien worlds are illusions, apparitions conjured up by a star's intense magnetic activity, a new study suggests. These new findings ...

The list was created by alien-hunting scientists at the SETI Institute. SETI stands for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." They created a list of "technosignatures", which are signs that ...

An alien planet has been discovered that may be "teeming with life" as scientists reveal the exact date we will know whether extraterrestrials exist could be "within one to two years". Lead researcher ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Alien life could take many different forms, but one possibility is captivating scientists: alien "plants". What would they look like? And how could we find them? On the Orion arm of the Milky Way ...