NASA has confirmed the detection of a colossal interstellar comet measuring up to 20 kilometers across as it speeds through ...

The search for life isn’t limited to distant exoplanets—some of the most promising candidates may be right here in our own ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond ...

A new program about cosmology will debut at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium during April.

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

While there’s no single accepted definition of life, scientists agree on some of the key clues. Gases like oxygen, carbon dioxide and methane in a planet’s atmosphere can serve as possible indicators ...

Exoplanet L98-59d, located far beyond our solar system, might not sound like someone’s dream destination. It likely has an ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...