The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Advances In Atmospheric Sciences, researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric ...

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

Today is one astronomers, stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as ...

Today is one astronomers, stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as ...

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will in a matter of days come as close to our planet ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an asteroid zooming close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b. When you purchase through ...