Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ones, and did not wish to die themselves, they invented an afterlife.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima ...

The surprising sci-fi explanation for Mr. Bean's quirky behavior was cleverly hidden across the 15 episodes of the iconic ...

The "Star Trek" franchise features a destructive super-weapon known as the Planet Killer, but the device's origins have remained a mystery for decades.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's the world you'd want to visit. K2-18b isn't exactly like Earth. It's more ...