The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

NASA’s quantum computer research helps us learn more about space. Quantum algorithms can solve hard problems and help with ...

Can we really reach another solar system? This video explores how humanity might colonize Proxima Centauri B, our closest potentially habitable exoplanet, located in the Alpha Centauri system. We ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study. Credi ...

The James Webb space telescope’s deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

The ocean covers most of Earth and may exist beyond it—scientists now suspect a distant exoplanet could be entirely covered ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

Quantum coronagraph filters stellar light using spatial photon sorting New tech may image Earth-like exoplanets near ...