Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains exceptionally high levels of methanol, suggesting it formed under conditions very different from those that shaped most comets in our solar system. ALMA also ...

Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b ...

Scientists have discovered that there is ice deep inside planets like Neptune and Uranus and want to find out what form it takes and how it behaves. They cannot dig for it and transport it all the way ...

Instead of observing the light coming to us, we study the debris of exploding stars right here on Earth. As cosmic furnaces, ...

NASA may already possess evidence that ancient life existed on Mars, but how to retrieve that data remains another question.

For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to identify dark matter, the mysterious material believed to account for ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus looks like a small, frozen ball of ice from a distance, but instruments trained on its south pole ...

Tiny grains collected from asteroid Ryugu have revealed how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived in space ...

Ensuring the integrity of our elections is fundamental to preserving trust in American democracy. Following the 2020 presidential election, concerns about potential irregularities prompted detailed ...