Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

The National Transportation Safety Board is probing the late-night crash of an Air Canada flight into a fire truck on March ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

These December 2025 observations by NASA's SPHEREx show the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet 3I/ATLAS's coma during the mission's ...

In 2017 astronomers detected something extraordinary: the first known object from another star system passing through our solar system. Named ‘Oumuamua, this mysterious visitor traveled at incredible ...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise was spotted enjoying a beach vacation on Friday as D.C. remains embroiled in a Homeland ...

A Space Odyssey hit screens. Read SFX legend Douglas Trumbull on the movie's original "crap script" and 20-foot-tall green ...

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Astronomers recently discovered a rare interstellar object passing through our solar system, and a Harvard physicist is sounding the alarm that its strange characteristics might indicate it’s more ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...