Aliens have long been a staple of science fiction. Yet the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth is more than a matter of imagination—it is also a subject of serious scientific inquiry.

Uranus: Uranus is in the night sky every day in November, rising in the east shortly before sunset and setting in the west ...

Just in time for Halloween, scientists have announced the discovery of a decidedly spooky green star, the first ever found.

Chinese scientists have discovered three exoplanets that challenge the existing understanding of how planets evolve around ...

A team of astrophysicists from Northwestern University has developed a new method to cut through the bright glare of ...

Some exoplanets absorb almost every ray of visible light that reaches them. Their darkness is revealing unexpected clues ...

New wide field view mosaic from the James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic survey of NGC1333 with three of the newly discovered free-floating planetary-mass objects indicated by green markers.

Today, I took a break from simulating game balance and spent some time adjusting the visuals of Mother Planets for the first ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...