AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

A new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers suggests that unpredictable stars could be distorting our ...

Alien theories from the 17th Century, including 'giants' on Jupiter and a 'God-populated universe', have been unearthed. Despite the recent surge in UFO sightings and alleged alien encounters ...

Being a "hot Jupiter" means it's a poor candidate for anyone trying to track down alien life – as well as for setting up a space base away from Earth. The planet was first discovered in October ...

WATCH LIVE: NASA's mission to hunt alien life on Jupiter's moon begins NASA launches a spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter's ice-covered moon, to explore whether its hidden ocean could support life ...

Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus. That's why the best way to search for ...

A vast ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa contains all the ingredients for life, according to new research. Aliens really could be living under its surface - just like in space thriller Europa Report ...

As of January 2012, the tally of confirmed alien worlds has skyrocketed to just ... starting with the 2003 discovery of a gas giant twice the size of Jupiter orbiting a star 18,000 light-years ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...