Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

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

Lead researcher Nathan Roth said the image shows the comet is “bursting with methanol in a way we just don’t usually see.” ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely comes from the Milky Way's disc, as astronomers ...

Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have detected a strange distortion that could point to an unknown planet lurking far beyond Neptune.

Learn how ALMA observations revealed unusually high levels of methanol in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and what the molecule’s chemistry may reveal about how icy bodies form around other stars.

Scientists detect alcohol on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The strange discovery could reveal secrets about alien solar systems and cosmic chemistry.

The planets orbit in a flat plane but our solar system is more than just a disc. This video reveals the 3D bubble we travel through, exploring the Oort Cloud, a spherical shell of icy bodies, and the ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but finding them is incredibly difficult. Unlike ...

A space shuttle flight crew discovers that the Earth they’ve returned to is not the home they left behind in the first book ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...