NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

Fans of James Cameron's The Abyss should check out these mysterious sci-fi movies for more of the same high-concept intrigue ...

Visible on Google Maps, the unusual structure is stationed in a remote spot in Nevada, about 80 miles (130km) northwest of ...

Are we alone in the universe? The answer to one of humanity’s biggest questions is complicated by a basic reality: If there is life on other worlds, it may not look familiar. In a paper published ...

Even if no planets show signs of life, that can teach us a lot. By getting zero signals, scientists can still estimate how ...

Titan may seem like a prime candidate for alien life with its organic-rich surface and deep subsurface ocean, but new ...

O n November 16, 1974, the incredible Arecibo radio telescope was used not to receive radio light from the universe but to send out a message to the stars. And 50 years on, the message, the content, ...

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...