Richard Branson has called on the UK to 'dominate' outer space and 'stand on our own two feet' in future Star Wars against ...

A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

North Carolina is full of surprises, and some of the best ones are tucked away where you’d least expect them. The Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City is proof that incredible experiences don’t ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed new views of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus into immersive soundscapes, turning planetary data into audio you can hear.

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

Lunar eclipses occur when our planet slides between the sun and moon, which temporarily prevents the sun’s light from falling ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...