During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is between 120 to 270 metres in diameter, and travelling at approximately 19.14 km/s (68,904 km/h). The ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

SpaceX has successfully launched its newest round of Starlink satellites into Earth's lower orbit from a Falcon 9 rocket.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief emissions of radio waves, lasting a fraction of a second but with as much energy as the ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Researchers have captured such sounds in space before, but now they have sensed ... The chorus has been picked up on radio antennas for decades, including receivers at an Antarctica research ...