The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

LIFE remains a mission concept and has not been adopted by any space agency. However, scientists at ETH Zurich have been examining what such a mission could reveal even in the absence of a positive ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...