Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

The crew of an alien spacecraft entering the Solar System, maybe looking for planets bearing alien life, would be struck by ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...

NASA has recently shared groundbreaking footage of Mars, offering the clearest images of the red planet ever captured by the ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...