NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

Mars. From forming black holes to phantom dark energy, discover the cosmic mysteries astronomers uncovered last year.

Introduction -- Form vs function : what is common across worlds? -- What are animals and what are aliens? -- Movement - scuttling and gliding across space -- Communication channels -- Intelligence ...

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...