Red and white dwarfs may turn out to be the most promising objects for searching for hypothetical Dyson spheres, systems ...

Call it an extra-sweet discovery. A group of astronomers has detected a sugar molecule swirling inside a cloud of gas and dust near the centre of our galaxy. They are calling the molecule — a compound ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

The Apple TV series wraps noir inside science fiction. With subtlety and charm, Farrell plays an earnest alien just doing his ...

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

Thousands of people have reported UFOs or alien encounters in Northern California. That number could soon go up.

NASA plans to launch the Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s, a mission whose goal is “to image Earth-like planets ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

Deep beneath the oceans' crashing waves lies a hidden landscape more alien than many of us could ever dream. Below the ...

Count Binface describes himself as ‘an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX’. But the ...

NASA's proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory will be designed for robotic repairs instead of astronaut servicing. The ...

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...