Researchers earlier this month said they used the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa to detect radio waves on Beta ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

While long-fabled technologies like Smell-O-Vision are still a long way off from ever being a reality, astronomers can still technically smell stuff deep in space without actually having to get a ...

Investor excitement around the SpaceX IPO is colliding with peak Elon Musk futurism after a new social media post featuring his musings about light-speed travel and exploring alien worlds. In a ...

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When/if alien life ever cruises toward Earth in big spaceships, we’re probably not just going to see it; we’re going to hear it via narrow radio signals. If an extraterrestrial civilization wanted ...

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world.

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