New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A ...

Somewhere in the southern sky, a giant planet roughly the size of Jupiter whips around a faint star every few days, so close ...

From the first photographer star to the discovery of alien worlds, these night sky targets mark some of astronomy's greatest firsts.

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly ...

Chaos is built into “Alien Girls,” which a year ago was workshopped at the Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival. A staged reading there was directed by Jaki Bradley, who has returned to direct the ...