Venus sits just one step closer to the Sun than Earth, making it our nearest planetary neighbor. At certain points in its ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

From the Navy’s infamous Tic-Tac encounter to thousands of recent reports, believers say some of the strangest UFOs may be ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and ...

I was, therefore, intrigued by a recent report about grave goods containing a mysterious yellow glass found in 1922 in the ...

A controversial new scientific paper has sent shockwaves through the academic community by suggesting that life on Earth may not have emerged through natural processes alone, but could instead be the ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

Deep layers of molten rock inside some super-earths could generate powerful magnetic fields—potentially stronger than Earth’s—and help shield these exoplanets from harmful radiation. Credit: ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...