For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

There’s the infamous zoo hypothesis, which supposes that advanced aliens know about our planet but stay away to let us evolve ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Saturn and Jupiter dominate November’s night sky, with a supermoon on the 5th and winter constellations making their return.

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Greetings! You can see all five visible planets this week, two in the early morning sky and three in the evening sky.

European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with additional data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

S cientists have confirmed the existence of over 6,100 planets beyond the Solar System in the Milky Way. Something that has ...