While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...
On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...
NASA has quietly hit pause on what it billed as its first dedicated hunt for alien biosignatures, reacting to fresh data that ...
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 ...
We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's ...
While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.
A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...
Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...