These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), is unlike most of the galaxy. Almost 80 percent of its dense gas is held there, ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is a gas giant known for its prominent ring system, composed of ice particles, and is the second-largest planet in our solar system, after Jupiter. Saturn is ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveils 10 stunning images of forming stars, capturing mesmerising details of their birth, chaotic outflows, and glowing cosmic clouds in space.

A blended wing body (BWB) aircraft is a design that merges the fuselage and wings into a single, smooth, aerodynamic ...

In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn't until stars ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years ...