Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

In what may be the most significant clue to alien planet life yet, scientists studying K2-18b have detected two sulfur-based ...

SCIENTISTS have hailed the “enormous” discovery that extraterrestrials could be living on k218b — an exoplanet 124 lightyears from Earth. Cambridge University astronomers are ...

The annual display of Lyrids, famous for bright “fireball” shooting stars, will occur from April 17-26, peaking on April 22, ...

The night sky will dazzle this week as the Lyrid meteor shower kicks off its annual display, marking the return of one of the oldest and most reliable celestial shows of the year.

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have provided the strongest indications yet of potential life beyond our solar ...

Some readers of this column who sought access to Dr Samuel Johnson for help in respect of their ailing prostate glands, or ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...