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Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

Many planets featured in Star Trek TNG share traits that scientists now look for when identifying exoplanets: rocky terrain, ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that exoplanet TOI-561 b is surrounded by a thick atmosphere above a global ...

Did NASA discover city lights on an alien planet? This video explores the implications and details of the findings that ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

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 ...

A wheelchair user will reach space next week for the first time ever, if all goes according to plan. Blue Origin announced ...

SpaceX intends to go public in 2026 and will seek a valuation of $1.5 trillion, according to media reports. Elon Musk's company has been private since its founding in March 2002. Over the past six ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...