Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

3I/ATLAS captured the world's attention last month as the comet raced past the Earth, but some believed that it could have ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Jupiter looks familiar from a distance, but beneath its clouds lies something profoundly alien. New data has overturned decades of assumptions about its structure and formation. Instead of clarity, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for astronomers to study an object born a long time ago in a star system far, far away.

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than ...