It's one of the biggest unanswered questions in science – is there life beyond Earth?And if so, where is it hiding? Now, scientists from Cornell University believe they have taken a major step forward ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

ALIENS might not be the color you think they are, scientists explain in a new study. New research from Cornell University indicates that Earth-like planets could look drastically different from what ...

Lush leaves, verdant fields, and dense forests. When we think of life on Earth, the color green is often the first to come to mind. Plants appear green because of a pigment called chlorophyll. For ...

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 ...

Scientists have cooked up the "alien haze" of distant planets, in an effort to help with the search for alien life. The haze is a simulation of the hazy skies that appear on water-rich exoplanets, or ...

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 ...