When we gaze into the night sky, we see a tiny fraction of what lies beyond our Solar System. In the vastness of space, our Sun and its planets are but a speck of dust. There are thousands of stars ...

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

Telescopes allow scientists to analyze starlight passing through distant planets’ atmospheres, revealing clues about their ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...