A team of researchers has identified what appears to be a massive underground lava tube on Venus, roughly 1 kilometer wide, hidden beneath the western flank of a shield volcano called Nyx Mons. The ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

The astronomers say the vast cave is a lava tube, providing the strongest evidence that these volcanic structures exist on ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s ...

NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a major first.

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures linked to the search for extraterrestrial life found traces of phosphine in ...