NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a carbon-rich atmosphere on a tiny world orbiting a dead, rapidly spinning ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...

Australia's space agency said there's a completely rational, albeit cosmic, explanation behind the mysterious orbs that ...

The discovery bemused residents of a small town in northeastern Australia. The objects appear to be junk from a space launch, ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

The shiny objects—each roughly twice the size of a basketball—began to appear on July 3. Authorities initially worried that ...

This rock star is ready for its extreme close-up. Chinese researchers have captured the first-ever close-up images of the ...

Experts suspect this space rock is a piece of the lunar surface torn off by a meteor impact, so it could be a time capsule ...