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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres. There are no confirmed hycean worlds but many candidates. Even though they ...

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

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

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Finding planets that could potentially be home to life isn’t very easy, but researchers from Switzerland have created an AI ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

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