The search for habitable worlds beyond the solar system now faces a more technical obstacle than distance: uncertainty in the ...

Pandora, a compact 325-kilogram spacecraft, boasts a novel 45-centimetre all-aluminium telescope developed with Lawrence ...

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: It also depends on what sort of person you are.” — C ...