SpaceX will launch NASA's next exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...

New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for ...

KEY FINDINGS Europa has long stood at the center of humanity’s search for life beyond Earth, its cracked ice shell and hidden ocean making it one of the solar system’s most compelling worlds. Now, as ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

Europa has long been the darling of the search for life beyond Earth. The reason is simple: beneath its cracked, icy shell ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

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