The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if we found alien life on Enceladus.

The Cluster is a form of life organized on principles so different from anything on Earth that understanding it requires ...

Astrobiologists think extraterrestrial civilisations grow so much that they hit crisis points, missing the chance to set out ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study has identified a very specific wavelength of light missing from both Pluto and ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth. While exploring an ancient river valley on Mars, the rover detected complex ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a ...