With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not.

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

For better or worse, subscription services like PlayStation Plus and Game Pass are here to stay. These platforms have had a complicated impact on the games industry as a whole, but it's hard to deny ...

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 ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren’t just for navigation. They are windows into history, culture and how we perceive the world. We visit a map library in ...

"We are only beginning to discover the true complexity of these worlds." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have used ...

From orbit high above Mars, a familiar shape has appeared in an utterly alien landscape: a vast feature that looks uncannily like a butterfly pressed into the planet’s dusty crust. Captured by NASA’s ...

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 ...