As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS shows signs of alien technology, from its 0.2% probability flight path to bizarre metal ...

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

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...