Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” who look suspiciously like us in rubber suits. The scientists who actually ...

A strange purple object aboard the ISS sparked alien fears online, but NASA revealed it was a potato experiment. It shows how ...

The third known visitor from another star system, Comet 3I/ATLAS, has been racing through the Solar System with just enough weirdness to ignite a familiar debate: is it natural or could it be ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...