Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

Professor Avi Loeb gained prominence in 2017 after the discovery of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass ...

Tau is in sight.

A nearby 'super‑Earth' just 25 light years from our solar system has been recategorised as a lighter, likely rocky world ...

If life is found beyond Earth, scientists known as astrobiologists will want to study any living beings. The first ...

Some of the coldest objects currently listed as stars in the Milky Way may not be stars at all. A new study by astrophysicist ...

For almost a decade—ever since 2017, when our first known interstellar visitor, 1I/‘Oumuamua, swooped through the inner solar ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

A strange class of comet could explain the enigmatic behavior of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object—and even shed ...

NASA plans to launch the Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s, a mission whose goal is “to image Earth-like planets ...

LHS 3844b is an exoplanet just slightly larger than Earth that orbits the red dwarf star LHS 3884, located 48.5 light years from our solar system ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...