Tabby’s star has provoked so much excitement over the past year that UC Berkeley’s Breakthrough Listen project is devoting hours of time on the Green Bank radio telescope to see if it can detect any signals from intelligent extraterrestrials.
USA already has nine spaceports designated for commercial operations.
Using two of the world's largest configurable telescopes, scientists have created the most detailed map yet of hydrogen atoms the Milky Way.
The X-ray emissions were discovered by chance beyond the Milky Way and no one really knows what is causing them.
Live coverage of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli lander arriving at Mars.
Finding evidence of gravitational-wave memory could help solve the black hole information paradox.
Half of the original mass of India and Eurasia is missing, upending how geologists believed tectonic interactions worked.
If successful, the October 19th landing would be a historic first for Europe
A team of ex-NASA scientists is now seeking private funding to scour the Alpha Centauri system for habitable planets.
After re-examining data acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, astronomers have detected wavy patterns in two of Uranus's dark system of rings' patterns that may be indicative of two undiscovered moons.
Astronomers have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies in the universe. There are at least 10 times as many galaxies in the observable universe as previously thought.
Scientists have identified a new dwarf planet in our Solar System, and it's lurking way out in the edges, some 13.6 billion km from the Sun.
In December, NASA put out a call for adventurers interested in interplanetary exploration. A vast pool of applications will be cut to 120 finalists, who will vie to become part of NASA’s next class of eight to 12 astronauts.
Despite the headlines, no alleged signals from ET have ever been confirmed. Yet far from being put off their search, scientists are stepping it up.
The data was collected when the spacecraft made its first orbital pass of the gas giant on Aug 27, 2016, with all spacecraft instruments turned on. The frequency range of these signals is from 7 to 140 kilohertz.
