If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's new image spotlights dust grains in a distant protoplanetary disk, allowing astronomers to ...

Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander launched in January 2024 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth. The ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

Imagine a distant world, light-years away, where intelligent beings scan the cosmos, searching for hints of life. If their ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...