With the help of a three-dimensional map of stars near the sun, astronomers can search for alien planets that might hold life. The map was created by NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope ...

To succeed, alien hunters will need to find planets with air. And the cosmic shoreline ... that straddle where we think the cosmic shoreline is,” Kempton said, “and map out where that boundary is.” ...

Revenge of the Savage Planet addresses this by including an informative map that allows players to ... Jump, shoot and collect your way across vibrant alien worlds, uncovering new gear and ...

NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...