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 ...

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

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

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for ...

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'.

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

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 ...