For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments ...

Mission control rooms are usually shown as loud places, full of pointing fingers and ringing alarms. The truth is often calmer. A lot of real space work looks ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 recently encountered and survived a staggering temperature of 50,000°C while traveling through deep space. This event, reported on September 23, 2025, has raised significant interest ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are taking a fresh look at neptunium, a rare radioactive metal that plays a crucial role in producing plutonium-238, ...

Astrophysicists are scrambling to study an ancient comet from another star system that entered the solar system this year, and which has already swung past Mars. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no ...

Christopher Watson receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Annelies Mortier receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities council (STFC) and UK ...

In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...

Experts are finding the secrets to supporting life in outer space on our own planet – in the deep ocean. Learn why underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal events could help us find the building blocks ...

The U.S. Space Command confirmed that a 2014 meteor is the first known interstellar object in our solar system. Interstellar means that it comes from outside our solar system. Scientists say its speed ...