In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

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An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

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An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown.

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...