This week, learn why experts are divided over an exoplanet, see the first footage of a colossal squid in its deep-sea habitat, uncover why Earth is peeling, and more.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

In the piece, columnist Moira Donegan writes in part that the star-studded Blue Origin flight “served as a kind of perverse funeral for the America that once enabled both scientific advancement and ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal this month, researchers throughout the United States share that ZTF SLRN-2020's planetary companion wasn't simply the victim of a fervid cosmic feast.

A few more stars are entering the stratosphere as Blue Origin's all-female, celebrity-studded space flight takes flight.

Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket ...

The latest series of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series about the horrors technology could wreak on ...