Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

"Natural astrophysical processes rarely generate extremely narrow spectral features while engineered transmitters often do," writes a team of astronomers including first author Zi ...

If so, why haven't they tried to contact us? Why is there silence in the universe? Humans on planet Earth being the only explorers. The answer to these questions so far are unknow ...

Over millions of years, water has eaten away at the limestone creating a Swiss-cheese landscape where caves reach the surface. Credit: Field team archive GIAM ZRC SAZU Subtle trenches on the Nullarbor ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will test powerful new technology that could make faint exoplanets far easier to image directly.

In the brine channels that thread through Arctic sea ice, it survives temperatures that would freeze most bacteria solid.

If ancient alien explorers ever traipsed through Earth's cosmic neighborhood, could it be possible they left behind some interstellar litter on the moon?

Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. A recent ...

Imagine standing on the surface of an alien world nearly 600 light years away from Earth. The sky glows dim red instead of blue. Strange plants sway in the cold wind. Water glimmers in the distance.

Our current planet-hunting techniques are unable to detect an Earth-like planet in an Earth-like orbit around a Sun-like star.

Prepare for blast-off at Play Planet, Scarborough’s premier indoor play centre. This space-themed destination offers a variety of "Exploration Playzones" designed to provide an out-of-this-world ...

Astronomers have made the recent discovery and say the new planet is a exoplanet which is forming in a cloud of debris around ...