A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

The Search Is Ongoing . Maybe alien civilizations watch us from afar, or perhaps only microbes gather in some distant world. Every new mission and space technology fuels the hunt, ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

Just when you think Snapchat couldn’t get more creative, it drops something that gets everyone buzzing again. Yup, the same ...

Astronomers have revealed an exoplanet called Enaiposha to be a one-of-a-kind "super Venus" whose carbon-dioxide-rich ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...

Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers ...