NASA’s SPARCS spacecraft has just sent back its first images, marking a major milestone in the mission to study low-mass ...

A new study by the SETI Institute suggests that the alien signals might be right here, surrounding us all of the time, and we're just unable to pick them out.

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Strife hits shelves in March 2026 as the fourth installment in his acclaimed Children of Time series. It's an ambitious, multi- ...

Unlike our Moon, they can keep water in oceans liquid for more than 4 billion years.

For a while, NASA's future looked to be on shaky ground, but this new proposal seems like a fresh vote of confidence.

But the creepiest layer of Marathon ’s mythology involves entities called the W’rkncacnter — primordial forces of chaos so dangerous they were imprisoned inside stars, black holes, and only ...

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our ...