It’s “like, ‘Wow, this is what I’m doing for a living’” says Holly Hunter, who plays a starship captain in “Starfleet Academy ...

Steward Observatory’s long running Public Lecture series aims to make the complex field of Astronomy accessible to everyone.

Pluribus Episode 8 is titled Charm Offensive and was released on December 19, 2025, on Apple TV. The penultimate episode of Vince Gilligan’s critically acclaimed sci-fi series presented viewers with ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

Did NASA discover city lights on an alien planet? This video explores the implications and details of the findings that suggest the presence of artificial light sources on a distant exoplanet. The ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

In 1965, twelve astronauts vanished into deep space on a mission Earth never acknowledged—sent to live among aliens on a planet called Serpo. What they found was a world of impossible tech, but not ...

An Earth-like world with heavy clouds might not hide life at all. It could make alien life easier to spot if those clouds carry colored microbes from the planet’s skies. Cornell scientists report the ...