Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

According to an official press release, Five Parsecs from Home: Planetfall is a co-op adventure game. Players take on the ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

There’s a strange allure to being dropped into an unknown world where the only familiar thing is your sense of panic, as if you were a kid again, turning off the lights and running to your bed at ...