Searching for life beyond the milky way

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

The year 2025 has been a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid on course to collide with Earth. The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to

Space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is sure there is alien life out there – and she wants a chance to explore it

Using Webb, researchers detected several complex carbon-based molecules ...

The comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS, a rare extrasolar intruder, continues to barrel through the Solar System, attracting interest and speculation from astronomers and space scientists worldwide. Harvard astron