A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks ...

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

James Webb uncovered exotic salt clouds surrounding the famous "Pink Planet," solving a long-standing mystery about one of ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...

Deep beneath the ice of Antarctica sits a lake that looks less like Earth and more like Mars. NASA scientists expected nothing more than frozen silence. Instead, they found a body of water with oddly ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric models. By directly imaging Epsilon Indi Ab with the James Webb Space ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific biological markers. Instead, the study suggests that life may be detectable ...

Scientists have just unlocked a new way to discover hidden worlds beyond our solar system, and the results are incredible. Using a powerful AI system called RAVEN, astronomers analyzed massive amounts ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly ...