If life is found beyond Earth, scientists known as astrobiologists will want to study any living beings. The first ...

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

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 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a carbon-rich atmosphere on a tiny world orbiting a dead, rapidly spinning ...

GJ 3378b could be just large enough and just close enough to its star to host life (Picture: Nasa) Aliens could call a planet about a 282 million-year drive away home, scientists say. GJ 3378b is an ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

On July 1, 2025, a NASA-funded sky survey spotted an object racing through the solar system on a path no gravitationally ...

Avi Loeb has revived debate around 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object that passed through the solar system last year, by suggesting it may have scattered life-building material as it travelled. The ...

Embarking on a journey through our solar system reveals worlds far different from our own. These distant planets hold mysteries and peculiarities that challenge our understanding of the universe.

Ryan Gosling’s newest costar is high-maintenance, had an entourage around him at all times and required his own wardrobe department on set. He’s also a space alien. “He is in the hotel right now in ...

A visitor from another star system is creating excitement in the astronomy community. The comet 3I/ATLAS which was first spotted in July 2025 contains chemical clues that scientists can use to study ...

Here are the best sci-fi movies from every year of the 2010s – the ones that made the best use of the genre's concepts and storytelling. When you think about the science-fiction genre, unchecked human ...