K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.

The discovery of dimethyl sulfide on K2-18b, a planet 120 light-years away, has ignited hopes for extraterrestrial life due ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

Third-year undergraduate Isabelle “Izzy” Connor and two Ph.D. candidates at other universities have recently won awards to further their research in astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.

Planets spin, stars spin, and galaxies spin. So maybe the universe is also spinning. This is what a team of researchers has ...

Scientists have spotted a molecule linked to life in the atmosphere of K2-18b using the James Webb Telescope. Here is a look ...