White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

The debate over the existence of extraterrestrial life touches literature, religion, and science in 17th century Europe.

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Greetings, stargazers. Saturday is named for the prominent figure in Roman mythology. In addition to stargazing, this month should be great for Saturn-gazing. To ancient astronomers, Saturn was one ...

The bright meteor was witnessed by by some Scots as it streaked across the sky in the early hours of Thursday July 3.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argued interstellar object 3I/ATLAS "could either visit us or release some mini-probes that ...

As interstellar object 3I/ATLAS approaches its closest point to the Sun next month, astronomers are watching as the ...

Urban legend has told us exactly what aliens look like — little humanoid figures with large oval eyes, a tiny mouth and nose ...