The cosmos is often viewed as a silent, static tapestry, yet recent weeks have reminded us that our solar system is a ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

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

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

The agency will conduct a controlled experiment on a closed course to study the effects of warning devices to help determine ...

Border Patrol and ICE officers conducted two separate operations that led to the arrests of 87 alleged "illegal aliens" with ...

All the players who rocked our world, in the year of Oasis reunions, Black Sabbath farewells, and guitarists keeping their ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Avi Loeb says interstellar objects such as 3I/ATLAS could carry time capsules into deep space faster than spacecraft built with 1970s technology ...

An instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft’s unique ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.