Black trees on alien planets: Scientists say worlds with two suns could host forests unlike anything on Earth

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became ...
ZME Science

Astronomers Find the Strongest Evidence Yet That Alien Planets Have Magnetic Fields

The winds on seven hellish alien worlds are moving in the wrong direction. That strange anomaly just cracked open one of ...
Forbes

Astronomers Are Finding Earth-Like Planets. Which Ones Might Harbor Alien Life?

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima ...
Nature

These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.