(CNN)-- From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe. Her ears are 42 large and sophisticated radio telescopes, spread across several acres, that scan the ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...

For decades, scientists have grappled with a profound question known as the Fermi Paradox: if the galaxy is teeming with the ...

Scientists discovered an exoplanet and are are studying to see if it is habbitable. According to the scientists, they are a ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A t ...

On one side, a groundbreaking new theory has emerged, suggesting that we need "external assistance" to resolve the flaws in the old . On the other side, a stunning discovery just next door to our ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter.

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

In the late 1980s, scientists realized they could understand the interior properties of the sun by observing the sound waves ...