NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, an object from another star that was found speeding through our solar system last summer, is now fading from ...

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Across the expansive history of the "Star Trek" franchise, humanity has encountered a growing number of alien races, many of whom that are exceedingly formidable when crossed. These are civilizations ...

Scientists identify 45 potentially habitable exoplanets, using exact data and quotes to guide future telescopes in the search ...

A newly identifiedplanetary system is forcing astronomers to rethink how worlds form and evolve, as a rocky planet appears ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

Ridley Scott's Alien is widely considered the ultimate sci-fi horror movie, but a few genre films, like The Fly and The Thing, are even better.