Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

Mars has long been pictured as a cold, quiet desert, its famous dust storms more cinematic backdrop than active player in the ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater where the rover first landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 ...

Four hundred light-years away, a world twice the size of Jupiter glows like a forge. Now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have charted that fiery planet in three dimensions — the ...

Embark on a poetic journey across a beautiful alien planet. Explore hand-painted landscapes, solve ancient puzzles and escape dangerous creatures and machines. Play as Lana, and her loyal animal ...

What do Xenomorph eggs feel like? According to the special effects experts who designed them for Alien: Earth, the answer is warm and sticky. Second Skin Studio worked directly with Wētā Workshop and ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

A mysterious comet flying through our solar system may be doing more than just passing by—it could help explain how giant planets like Jupiter are born. At a major planetary science conference in ...