In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

Archaeologists thought they found wires buried on a farm. It was actually Viking treasure. How Many Steps a Day Can Prevent ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...