HUNTING for aliens is now a little easier as scientists discover a new sign that gives away life on far-off planets. Importantly, this new signal teases the presence of alien life on distant ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...