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

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Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of a distant, frigid planet in a solar system unlike our own, astronomers announced on Tuesday (June 10).

Space is full of mysteries that have not even been discovered so far, and every year, astronomers come across numerous new objects drifting through the vastness of the universe. Be it distant ...

Three researchers recently published a paper speculating about whether an object (likely a comet) could be "hostile" alien technology Scientists estimate the object to be more than 12-miles-wide, ...

If TOI-561 b has an atmosphere, it would mean even rocky exoplanets exposed to the harshest conditions can have air, ...

A Harvard astronomer is making waves by suggesting that a massive interstellar object hurtling through our solar system might be an alien spacecraft. Professor Avi Loeb, who also serves as director of ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...