Scientists warn a strange iron bar in a distant nebula could reveal Earth's fate when the Sun dies, offering a grim look at ...

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

Mars, long admired for its rusty hue and alien deserts, may play a far greater role in shaping life on Earth than once ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...

But can we use telescopes to detect whether any of these distant worlds also harbour life? A promising method is to analyse the gases present in the atmospheres of these planets. We now know of more ...

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...