The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.
Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...
A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...
Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...
This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...
A well-worn expression among oceanographers and others who explore the watery depths of planet Earth is that we humans “know the surface of Mars better than our ocean floors.” Covering more than 70 ...
Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...
An unusual destination in the Caribbean that some call the "eighth wonder of the world" is a scientific marvel with life ...
A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, ...
Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...
In 1952, a series of unexplained sightings took place in the skies above Washington. These unidentified objects attracted ...
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