Some 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations began arriving in Cuba on Friday as part of a solidarity caravan transporting some 20 tons of humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the ...

President Donald Trump and his NASA administrator are reviving the Pluto debate again — apparently at the urging of “Star ...

Astronomers have just revealed the most promising places in the universe to search for extraterrestrial life, identifying almost 50 rocky worlds that are most likely to be habitab ...

The film which opens in theaters Thursday is grounded in a real nearby star systems an exoplanet science, with a dose of fictional biology.

Sure, we want to study how different systems form and why many look different from our own, but we would also like to find Earth-twins: habitable worlds that might host life. Researchers have now ...

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

One of the organization’s five unique venues, Melbourne Museum, explores the wonder of life on Earth in a recently opened ...

When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance. As usual, most hesitated to speak too ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.