A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

That band of light is our home we know as the Milky Way galaxy. But it is impossible to see the galaxy as a whole with our ...

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Just three decades ago, astronomers had no evidence that planets commonly orbited other stars. Then in 2025, NASA confirmed ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

Put aside any notions you have about humans finding a place to live or looking for aliens and exoplanet astronomy is still ...

Once small enough, these technograins might gain a trip out of its host solar system by a solar wind that overcomes the star's gravity holding it back. These motes of dust are then free to roam the ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by ...

Grain-sized remnants of alien technology may get caught in solar wind and land on plants and moons close to us ...