By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes.

Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

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 ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

An alien radio signal from K2-155 d? Are there any alien civilizations out there? For several decades, scientists have been searching for evidence that they exist. That effort is collectively known as ...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of ...

While long-fabled technologies like Smell-O-Vision are still a long way off from ever being a reality, astronomers can still technically smell stuff deep in space without actually having to get a ...

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...