An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

These targets will guide observations with current and future facilities, including the James Webb Space Telescope and ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Former President Barack Obama said we'd know if the U.S. government was keeping aliens 'underground somewhere' after ...

Multisensory exhibition, on view June 11 through September 13, invites visitors to get real about what it takes to survive ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural ...

A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning ...

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.

A forgotten signal found by citizen scientists could be a habitable Earth-like planet. Here’s how astronomers tracked it down ...