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Alien life may hide in plain sight: Statistical pattern...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that...

Exploring the moon's shadowy craters with nuclear-power...

NASA and other space agencies are intent on sending astronauts back to the moon,...

Dark matter could explain the earliest supermassive bla...

A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes—some we...

Astronomers crack a decades-old mystery, catching gas m...

An international team led by Dr. Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Ast...

Planets need more water to support life than scientists...

Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system a...

'Interstellar glaciers': NASA's SPHEREx maps vast galac...

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Rei...

'Dancing jets' from black hole reveal an immense power ...

New Curtin University-led research has used a radio telescope that spans Earth t...

ALMA confirms rare quasar pair at redshift 5.7 in mergi...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have ...

Titan's lakes may spawn 10-foot waves in gentle winds, ...

On a calm day, a light breeze might barely ripple the surface of a lake on Earth...

Solar flares' domino effect isn't limited to the sun, 1...

Our sun is a roiling mass of energy, with solar flares exploding on its surface,...

Boots on the moon and beyond. Where next after Artemis ...

It is tempting to view the Artemis II splashdown as the exclamation point on a s...

Uranus's two outer rings show starkly different origins

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island are rev...

eROSITA disentangles the solar system's X-ray glow from...

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to d...

From sunsets to the night sky: How technology can help ...

On a chilly yet beautifully clear evening last November, I sat on a video call w...

Are aliens real? Scientists have been hunting for extra...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life?

Weighing in on the mystery of the gravitational constant

The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at...