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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

NASA is getting closer to building the powerful telescopes needed to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, thanks ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

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