A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a White House panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a new ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

James Webb uncovered exotic salt clouds surrounding the famous "Pink Planet," solving a long-standing mystery about one of ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a global phenomenon that spawned many knockoffs, with films like Purple People Eater, Badi, ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A strange interstellar comet discovered last year and speculated by a prominent astronomer to be an alien spacecraft could be ...

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...

Deep beneath the ice of Antarctica sits a lake that looks less like Earth and more like Mars. NASA scientists expected nothing more than frozen silence. Instead, they found a body of water with oddly ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric models. By directly imaging Epsilon Indi Ab with the James Webb Space ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific biological markers. Instead, the study suggests that life may be detectable ...