Interstellar space is unforgivingly vast, but the emptiness has some advantages. The lack of atmosphere means there is no aerodynamic drag.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to discover approximately 100,000 exoplanets, significantly expanding our ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far ...

Alien planets across the Milky Way reveal how strange, hostile, and spectacular other worlds can be, from the nearby promise ...

Small, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed early and often throughout our Milky Way galaxy's history, a new study reveals ...

Theology has never viewed humanity as the only intelligent life in the universe. In Islam, the holy Quran explicitly states God is the “Lord of all worlds”. Scholars generally agree that the existence ...

Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named "Loki" that ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century Some stars streaking through the ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be ...