Far beyond the familiar greens and purples of Earth’s aurora, Jupiter’s polar skies are hiding a secret that has only now ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

Are some planets actually born from alien wanderers drifting through space? :milky_way: A new theory suggests that interstellar objects like comet 3I/ATLAS might be seeding young star systems, ...

A teenage boy sits on a diving board above an empty swimming pool. - Tribeca Film Festival Welcome to the weird world of Boys Go to Jupiter, where aliens hang out with delivery boys, juice factories ...

In a remarkable new study featured in Physical Review Letters, scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter," Ali Sulaiman, an assistant professor of physics and ...

It is the third known interstellar object observed, following "Oumuamua" in 2017 and "2I/Borisov" in 2019. Since the Hubble ...

What can Jupiter’s auroras teach scientists about auroras on other planets? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a new ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

A new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research.

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...