(THE CONVERSATION) A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, ...

The glowing object was a bolide, fireballs that explode in a bright flash, according to experts. It streaked across Mexico’s predawn skies on Wednesday.

NASA's Perseverance rover has revealed new clues about Mars' volcanic past. While most people searching for signs of alien ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.

Astronomers detected a possible signature of life on a planet orbiting a star 120 light-years away,” it read. Soon after, The Washington Post followed up with a notification of its own, using similar ...

A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon form a celestial smirk near the horizon.

Mankind has been looking at the stars for millennia, wondering if were alone in the universe. We now have the best proof that ...

Evidence of biological activity outside the solar system can potentially change the way the night sky is fundamentally perceived, from seeing it as a physical, inanimate sky to thinking of it as a ...

K2-18b is an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star called K2-18, chilling 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation. It’s ...