Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute announced it will expand its pilot program funded through a grant from the Amateur ...

Inside the Pegasus constellation, a planet is disintegrating into boiling chunks of rock and evaporating minerals. Its ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Three-body problem: A longstanding problem in classical mechanics that tries to calculate the trajectories of three masses ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know.

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

Four Indian American college professors are among this year’s Fellows: Swarat Chaudhuri, Saurabh W. Jha, Tulasi Srinivas, and ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

A groundbreaking discovery has rocked the field of neutrino astronomy—scientists have detected an ultra-high-energy neutrino ...

Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet. But they caution much more work is needed to confirm their findings.

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...