The eerie purple orb freaking out social media is actually Spudnik-1, a homegrown ISS potato pointing to NASA's plans for food on Moon and Mars trips.

TV has taught us many important lessons about aliens. They are either here to observe us, replace us, eat our cats, or gently judge our emotional intelligence while wearing a bathrobe. Sometimes all four. Long before prestige sci-fi and billion-dollar ...

The internet did a double-take after NASA Astronaut Don Pettit shared a photo from the International Space Station that looked, at first glance, like something from a sci-fi movie. The purple, alien-looking object appeared to have a tentaclelike sprout on one side and a strange patch on the other,

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, thanks to an innovative AI program.

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet. Astrobiologists predict that their biochemistry will be very ...