NASA discovered five exoplanets orbiting stars in under 24 hours, challenging planetary models and providing insights into ...

The exoplanet, discovered in 2009, remained elusive due to dense clouds. Now, scientists have peered through with the James ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

A team of scientists have integrated an ultrasensative sensor called a “superconducting nanowire single-photon detector,” or ...

Groundbreaking research unveiled by a professor at Texas A&M University could transform our knowledge of icy ocean worlds ...

After launch, the SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage booster settled down for landing on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Live updates from Tuesday afternoon’s SpaceX Starlink 12-18 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

Is life as rare as we once believed? A new Penn State study suggests that intelligent life is more likely than previously thought.

Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...