The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...
Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...
The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...
Scientists studying Saturn’s mysterious moon Enceladus say it may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to ...
Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...
New polarimetry data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals bizarre refractory dust, proving this alien visitor formed in a ...
A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...
Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...
An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...
Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...
Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...
There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for astronomers to study an object born a long time ago in a star system far, far away.