The search for life beyond Earth has followed a familiar logic: find a rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone, where ...

Scientists find that planets need more than water to support life. Too little water may cause long-term overheating and ...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of ...

Observations don’t match the predictions of the standard model—and it’s not just a fluke.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

The director of the Madrid Royal Observatory dreams of finding signs of life in space but laments the fact that countries are ...

As Denver’s starting small forward alongside the star duo of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, Cam Johnson will be an X-factor ...

Museveni’s ‘moon versus insects’ rhetoric exposes how Africa’s scientific potential is being grounded by politics that reward ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the giant exoplanet 29 Cygni b — work that could clarify ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Roman will survey the universe with a mirror similar to the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing more about how the cosmos ...

Chris Stockdale first became interested in outer space during the 1960s and built his own observatory ...