When a scientific controversy or breakthrough dominates headlines, press officers and journalists often quote a handful of ...

In an astronomical first, researchers have measured the magnetic fields of 7 "hot Jupiter" planets beyond our solar system — ...

Nearly two dozen ‘Earth-like’ planets that could be crawling with alien life have been identified by scientists. Exoplanets are what scientists call worlds that orbit other stars (though some are ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

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 ...

LAKE PLACID – Proof of alien life on other planets may be found within the next two decades, according to NASA’s chief scientist who spoke Saturday in Lake Placid. Ellen Stofan spoke about that ...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...