In a remarkable new study featured in Physical Review Letters, scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have identified an entirely new kind of plasma wave embedded within the auroras ...

A teenage boy sits on a diving board above an empty swimming pool. - Tribeca Film Festival Welcome to the weird world of Boys Go to Jupiter, where aliens hang out with delivery boys, juice factories ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter," Ali Sulaiman, an assistant professor of physics and ...

A new preprint study posted toarXiv by a team at Applied Physics in New York suggests that LIGO – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – might be able to detect something far more ...

What can Jupiter’s auroras teach scientists about auroras on other planets? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a new ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Boys Go to Jupiter is an indie animated film about life in central Florida — and also a donut-shaped alien creature.

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything about it that might align with a hypothetical alien spacecraft.

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

A new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research.

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.