Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch around May 2027, the agency has said, and will let us unravel ...

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

A father-daughter duo has decoded an alien-like signal beamed from a spacecraft in 2023. Now, citizen scientists are trying ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument provides a field of view 100 times greater than the Hubble ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

How would Xenomorphs even get to our pale blue dot? ‘Alien Earth’ is propped to show us exactly that, as well as the horror ...

The hunt for alien life is about to get a massive ... This allows it to scan enormous sections of space for potential habitable planets. The telescope, estimated to cost £2.6 billion ($3.2 ...

Scientists are questioning whether alien life needs a planet to exist. Traditionally, planetary surfaces have been seen as ...