What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Though on the surface they seem to have next to nothing in common, I couldn’t help but think of Rogue One and Andor while ...

Andor is one of the more successful Star Wars spinoff shows on television, and Adria Arjona as Bix Caleen is more than ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

Astronomers should search for technosignatures on planets that are not conducive to life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb ...

HUNTING for aliens is now a little easier as scientists discover a new sign that gives away life on far-off planets. This illustration shows a potential 'Hycean world' – the kind that might show ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered in clouds of iron and magnesium minerals.

Scientists have searched for alien life for years, but space is huge, and technology has limits, making it hard to find answers. Traditionally, researchers have focused on finding planets similar to ...

The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This view ...

Gravitational microlensing events are revealing the mysteries of rogue planets, but what are they, and how does it work? And what role does the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope play in helping us ...

This celestial body, possibly a rogue planet or a brown dwarf, has puzzled astronomers for years. JWST’s infrared observations have revealed intricate cloud layers, temperature shifts ...