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A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Having considered more than 1,000 cases, this analyst of unidentified anomalous phenomena has honed a rational process for ...

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

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This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

An unusual destination in the Caribbean that some call the "eighth wonder of the world" is a scientific marvel with life ...

A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, ...