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

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

For millions of years, a frozen traveler drifted in silence through the stars, carrying secrets from another world. This ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

The finding suggests phosphine—a potential biosignature—shouldn’t be viewed as evidence of alien life until natural, ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

"This is the moment where the metal detector has gone off and you've dug up something shiny. You still need to find out ...

As with many big space stories, 3I/ATLAS is getting a fair share of attention as well as some more controversial theories ...

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 ...

The planet is part of a planetary system about 40 light-years away from Earth called TRAPPIST-1, which five Belgian astronomers discovered in 2016 and named after their favorite beer.