"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (08/19/2025) — Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing and analyzing the first new type of plasma wave in ...

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.

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

A strange object hurdling through our solar system from interstellar space may, according to one of academia’s most controversial astronomers, have been sent by aliens to see how smart we are. “It is ...