Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

New research shows Earth formed dry and lifeless—until a chance cosmic collision delivered the ingredients needed for life.

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...