When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Astronomers tracking upcoming space missions say new telescopes and probes could detect signs of extraterrestrial biology within the next six years — a timeline that’s sparking both hope and debate ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

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Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing ...

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.

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Avi Loeb, a renowned Israeli‑American astrophysicist and Harvard professor, has become one of the most provocative voices in ...

The composer and playwright just received the coveted grant. On a visit to the Hayden Planetarium—which includes a video ...

A Pakistani-born scientist may have uncovered signs of life beyond our planet. Dr. Nozair Khawaja, an astrobiologist at Freie ...

Astronomers from the Australian National University (ANU) have unveiled a ground-breaking discovery of binary stars in the outer regions of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, marking a world-first ...

The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, ...