From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

A disk 40 times the diameter of our solar system has been discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which is likely an image of ...

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

Comet‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ 3I/ATLAS is just the third object that we know of that has been observed to pass through our solar system ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar ...

Learn how you can say farewell to comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes by Earth on Dec. 19, 2025, and what we have learned during its ...

A strange spider-like formation on one of Jupiter's moons may be the smoking gun in the search for extraterrestrial life in ...