CHINA (KXAN) – Earlier this week, Chinese state media reported that the nation’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) detected a signal from a possible “extraterrestrial civilization ...

Update: After we ran this story, we tracked down one of the researchers behind the research for an interview. His take? It’s definitely not aliens. A team of Chinese and US scientists have put their ...

NASA announced the latest findings Monday in its hunt for friendly exoplanets, and the haul includes 219 new candidates. Of those, 10 are potentially rocky and located in the habitable zones of their ...

Wait, you thought the Kepler Space Telescope was dead? Think again. Today, NASA’s Kepler team announced the discovery of a whopping 1,284 new planets—the largest number of exoplanets ever reported at ...

The search for an Earth-like planet orbiting another star is one of astronomy’s greatest challenges. It’s a task that appears close to fruition. Since astronomers spotted the first exoplanet in 1988, ...

Last week brought some crushing news for all the exoplanet enthusiasts out there: Kepler-438b, officially the most Earth-like exoplanet discovered so far, is actually an irradiated wasteland — meaning ...

New research just found that the recently discovered “most Earth-like alien planet,” Kepler-438b, could have been rendered uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation. The planet’s atmosphere is ...

Kepler-438b is an Earth-like exoplanet whose atmosphere might have been shed away by vast quantities of harmful radiation emitted by its parent Red Dwarf star, Kepler-438.Researchers from the ...

Unpack those suitcases. According to a new study, the most Earth-like planet on our radar has one decidedly un-Earth-like feature: It’s super radioactive. The research, published Tuesday in the ...