A NASA astronaut recently sent the internet into a frenzy when he posted an alien-looking photo on social media. The photo ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

The eerie purple orb freaking out social media is actually Spudnik-1, a homegrown ISS potato pointing to NASA's plans for ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

Scientists believe turbulent “space weather” around distant stars could be scrambling potential alien signals before they ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

One of science’s greatest honours is to have something named after you. For example, geographer Alexander von Humboldt is remembered by a penguin, a Californian county, a mountain range and so much ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.

Despite the universe's vastness, containing billions of stars and galaxies, humanity has yet to encounter alien life.