That’s when Cathedral Gorge State Park calls your name – a slice of otherworldly serenity tucked away in Panaca, Nevada that feels like it exists in its own dimension. These towering spires could ...

Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable ...

When the Schumer-Rounds Amendment was introduced in the Senate, it explicitly defined “Non-Human Intelligence” in legal text ...

Benjamin Barakat’s award-winning astrophotograph reveals Socotra’s surreal bottle tree beneath a pristine Milky Way ...

An alien comet, a Martian volcano, a man’s fall from the sun and a groundbreaking telescope’s first images: Here are the most jaw-dropping space photos of 2025.

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will soon come as close to our planet as it ever will.

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

When astronomers search for life beyond Earth, they usually start with a familiar question: could a particular exoplanet support biology like ours? Liquid water, mild temperatures, and Earth-like ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...