An artist's impression of a hot Jupiter's magnetic field. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick) The ...

A new Keck Observatory study indicates that giant planets can spin faster than more massive brown dwarfs, revealing important ...

A shocking pattern appears again and again throughout modern history. From wartime propaganda and emotional media campaigns ...

Astrobiologists warn that NASA's current instruments may miss subtle signs of alien life, risking 'false negatives' in the ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, ...

There are all sorts of things flying around the universe that we earthlings haven't yet figured out how to identify.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking for on other planets or moons? A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, ...

The search for life beyond Earth has a new approach that relies more heavily on statistical patterns of molecules than on any one molecule's presence. For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has ...