They are in a race for the answer with a separate team of Japanese scientists – who are several years ahead. The current theories of astronomy can't explain why the planets stars and galaxies ...

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 Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

But a team of scientists has created a new way to answer whether aliens exist. Daniel Apai, an astrophysicist and astrobiologist at the University of Arizona, studies exoplanets – worlds that orbit ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural ...

An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly close to Earth. Named Eos after the Greek goddess of the dawn, the cloud of gas ...

Having both experiments running together means that scientists will learn more than they would with just one, but, he says, "I would like to get there first!" Image source, NASA Image caption, ...

Scientists believe that the answer to understanding why matter won – and we exist – lies in studying a particle called the neutrino and its antimatter opposite, the anti-neutrino.