Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the ...

Named 3I/ATLAS, this comet is the third-ever interstellar visitor to our solar system to be observed by astronomers. By the end of this month, it'll pass behind Mars and be blocked from our view, ...

One night in 1957, Antônio Vilas Boas was plowing his field in rural Brazil when he saw mysterious red lights flying through the sky. What he presumed was a spacecraft landed in a nearby field.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have, for the first time, recorded the songs of the Chinese hwamei Garrulax ...