Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.

If our roughly 13 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, the researchers note, these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a ...

Queens Public Library is inviting young minds across the borough to blast off into the cosmos this April with the launch of ...

Credit: NASA, Alamy This week's science news was largely dominated by the return of ... Astronomers studying the largest-ever map of the cosmos have found hints that our best understanding of the ...

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The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

New observations of the cosmos show that the dark energy, a mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of the universe, is evolving.

Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...