Astronomers have discovered the most compelling sign of alien life ever detected outside our Solar System, with the new study ...

"Decades from now, we may look back at this point in time and recognise it was when the living universe came within reach," ...

Scientists have detected chemical signatures on a planet 124 light-years away that suggest the presence of life for the first time beyond our solar system.

Researchers peering into the cosmos with help from the James Webb Space Telescope say they've uncovered the strongest sign ...

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Its high-rise observatory provides sweeping views of the ... He joined the U.S. Navy in 2004 and has been assigned to Stars and Stripes since 2021. His previous assignments have taken him to ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

It used to be that an amateur who discovered a comet or an erupting star would dispatch a telegram to the Harvard College Observatory, from which a professional, if the finding checked out ...

This composite image shows RCW 103 and its central source, called 1E 161348-5055 (1E 1613), exhibiting properties of a highly magnetized neutron star ... NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from the ...