A planet orbiting a giant red star has been discovered by an astronomy team led by Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, who in 1992 discovered the first planets ever found outside our solar…
The search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as 'weird' life - that is, life with an alternative…
When we think of extrasolar Earth-like planets, the first tendency is to imagine weird creatures like Jar Jar Binks, Chewbacca, and, if those are not bizarre enough, maybe even the…