Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

A privately funded space telescope with a mirror larger than Hubble’s could soon investigate 27 distant giant planets using a ...

Just in time for Halloween, scientists have announced the discovery of a decidedly spooky green star, the first ever found.

What starts as a single blurry photo turns into a full expedition across one of speculative biology's most carefully ...

Earth would be terrifying if we celebrated Halloween every 11 hours, a possibility on a super-Earth investigated by the JWST, ...

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way.

An interstellar comet appears to carry tiny mixtures of ice and dust resembling material on distant worlds in our own solar ...

A rocky planet exposed to extreme heat from its star appears to reflect nearly three-quarters of the starlight that reaches ...

Lilypad's Jams soundtrack is now on Apple Music and Spotify, with 9 songs from the Toy Story Land ride, including originals ...

James Webb reveals how powerful winds and extreme temperature differences create an unusual atmospheric bulge on the giant ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now ​found a world that ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...