The following essay explores an oft ignored concern in extraterrestrial research — what color would an alien’s trousers be (if he/she/it were even wearing trousers)? On June 4, Peggy Kolm posted her ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a ...

Purple is the new green, as far as aliens are concerned, anyway. If you were asked to imagine an alien planet, it would be reasonable to imagine a green earth-like rock orbiting somewhere in a distant ...

NEW YORK — Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a distant alien world. The exoplanet — called HD 189733b — is 63 light-years from Earth and a “deep ...

What would Earth look like if it were orbiting a different star? Our very existence is shaped by the amount of light and radiation we receive from the Sun. If Earth were to orbit around a different ...

This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. The planet's atmosphere is scorching with a temperature of over 1000 degrees Celsius, and it ...

Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a distant alien world. The exoplanet — called HD 189733b — is 63 light-years from Earth and a "deep cobalt blue ...