Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. On Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24, 2025, it will be ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Stargazers will revel in a dazzling display as a six "planet parade" dances across the sky on Sunday, Aug. 10. The planetary alignment, casually called a planet parade, occurs when several planets ...

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 ...

This article first appeared on Wired.com. On August 10, six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets — Mercury, ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth. When you ...