One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

The three-star system, which likely hosts planets, is slowly moving closer to us and will reach its closest point in about 28 ...

The study builds on previous research investigating different biosignature gases, including dimethyl sulfide, another ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at what they ...

Scientists say the number of alien objects entering our solar system will also increase exponentially then. One of the notable examples of an interstellar visitor paying us a visit was 'Oumuamua'.

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...