I was at home at the time, heard a loud crash, and found a hole in the ceiling of the master bedroom,” the stunned homeowner ...

"Thanks to the homeowner’s quick reaction, these are the most pristine CM1/2 meteorites we know of." ...

On July 16, 2024, a daytime meteor shook New York City with a sonic boom as it passed just south of the Statue of Liberty.

What could we be looking at?

A group of astronomers has detected a sugar molecule swirling inside a cloud of gas and dust near the centre of our galaxy.

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

Experts suspect this space rock is a piece of the lunar surface torn off by a meteor impact, so it could be a time capsule ...

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Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has traditionally focused on detecting radio signals or laser transmissions from distant civilisations. But a new study proposes a very different idea: ...