A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

The 4.4-meter-aperture telescope, led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and situated at the Lenghu astronomical ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) represents the next leap forward in astronomical observation, designed to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before. This state-of-the-art telescope aims to ...

Big cats like panthers, leopards, and tigers are famous for their extraordinary night vision so sharp they can stalk prey in ...

To build their self-reproduction structures, the team began with an aqueous solution containing monomers to be polymerized, a ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

This year's theme is Event Horizon, and many panels and lectures will be focused on what's to come for humanity.

How would people react to news of First Contact? An author who specializes in plausible science-fiction novels speculates ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...