The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Spielberg fans quickly rushed to social media after seeing the new billboards to theorize about what the still-untitled movie ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...