The former president's lighthearted comments on extraterrestrials made the news in recent days. He wasn't entirely wrong.

Astronomers have detected a smelly gas best known for the odor of rotten eggs—hydrogen sulfide—in the atmospheres of four giant planets far beyond our solar system. While the gas may be unpleasant on ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

According to the US billionaire, this will require building factories on the Moon and launching AI space exploration satellites using mass drivers ...

"I really wanna see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space. Just going like 'shoom, shoom,' just one after the other." ...

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Frank is an astrophysicist exploring our place in the Cosmos. As a practicing astrophysicist and science communicator I see ...

This image presents a grid of color-enhanced astronomical observations, each depicting a circumstellar disc—structures of dust and gas surrounding stars. Every square in the grid represents a ...