In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...

Is alien life really out there? For decades, humanity has looked at the night sky and asked the same question. Now, according ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium ...

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Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

If you’re concerned about an impending alien invasion, then worry not, because life on nearby exoplanets may not be advanced enough for that to happen. This claim has been made in a new study, ...

LHS 1140b is a potentially rocky exoplanet in its star’s habitable zone. It’s an intriguing target in the search for worlds ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus could harbour alien life in oceans deep beneath its frozen surface, according to a new study.

The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus would theoretically be able to host some forms of microbial life, according to a scientific study ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, it makes sense to first look for rocky planets with an atmosphere, like Earth. Without an atmosphere, a planet can’t have surface water. But of the more than 6 ...

"Natural astrophysical processes rarely generate extremely narrow spectral features while engineered transmitters often do," writes a team of astronomers including first author Zi ...