Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

Research indicates airport radar systems may unintentionally broadcast Earth's presence to aliens up to 200 lightyears away, ...

Study pinpoints which rocky worlds could hang on to a life-supporting atmosphere ...

When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?

The Trump administration selected a controversial Harvard astronomer to lead their new scientific advisory council to study ...

In fact, throughout history there have been numerous reports of supposed alien spacecraft sightings that have turned out to ...

Turns out, you just need to catch a boat from Ventura and head about an hour offshore to Channel Islands National Park, where nature has been running its own private laboratory for thousands of years.

Scientists studying the comet 3I/ATLAS have determined that this interstellar visitor is remarkably ancient — formed an estimated 10 to 12 billion years ago in a primordial planetary system — and has ...

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