Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

When the object now known as 1I/ʻOumuamua streaked through the inner Solar System in 2017, it instantly rewrote the playbook ...

Elon Musk makes first Davos appearance, joins Larry on stage and jokes about aliens, peace deals, and pension funds.

Jupiter looks familiar from a distance, but beneath its clouds lies something profoundly alien. New data has overturned ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

MARS was not always the beaming red we’re so used to seeing in space. Scientists have revealed that it was actually a “blue planet” some 3billion years ago. The search for water ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...

Astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 3I/ATLAS was confirmed as the third known object to enter our solar system from interstellar ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden beneath thick, light-blocking haze, it holds a mix of gases that defies every ...