Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

NASA is ready to explore the cosmos in a whole new way, thanks to its next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Scientists and engineers have spent some twenty years designing and building ...

Are there intelligent life forms in the universe other than on Earth? This is a grand question that everyone has pondered at ...

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

Pioneering astronomer Carl Sagan once wrote that "The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." On screen, the vastness of the universe and the ...