An artist's impression of a hot Jupiter's magnetic field. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick) The ...

A new Keck Observatory study indicates that giant planets can spin faster than more massive brown dwarfs, revealing important ...

A shocking pattern appears again and again throughout modern history. From wartime propaganda and emotional media campaigns ...

Astrobiologists warn that NASA's current instruments may miss subtle signs of alien life, risking 'false negatives' in the ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

There are all sorts of things flying around the universe that we earthlings haven't yet figured out how to identify.

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

The search for alien life has mostly focused on water, oxygen, and distant Earth-like planets. Now another clue has entered the picture. Researchers say living systems may leave behind a hidden ...