Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

When a hunk of ice from another star system hurtles through our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers pay attention. When that ...

Astronomers have caught four dying stars in the act of chowing down on rocky alien planets similar to Earth, a destructive cosmic process that may one day play out in our very own solar system, a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Alien universe just got a little more star power. Deadline reports that Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage is joining the ...

It's not just iconic characters like Kirk, Spock, and Janeway that have made "Star Trek" one of the best science fiction franchises of all time. It's also its memorable alien races like the Klingons, ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...