Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious radio signals from Proxima Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. Could this be the ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

UFO tourism is booming as UAP sightings are now more commonly featured in mainstream media. There are countless silly Alien ...

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist with technology similar to ours, could they detect Earth? A team of SETI researchers ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

The glow we see from distant galaxies is as old as Earth’s ancient rocks One photographer put the age of starlight into perspective with stunning projections on some of Earth's oldest rock ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, there’s life out there somewhere.

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks ... NASA's Osiris Rex spacecraft had grabbed parts of the ancient Bennu asteroid and uncovered a rich set of minerals ...