The mission is still in the early stages of its conception, with contracts given recently to firms.

Avi Loeb, a distinguished cosmologist who previously led Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020 and conducted extensive research on black holes, was recently appointed to chair a new scientific ...

Somewhere in the Mojave Desert, a gleaming white dome sits in the middle of nowhere, and the story behind it is stranger than ...

"It's a lot of fun, as long as you don't pay too much attention to the critics," says Loeb ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security ...

Space exploration was a major theme of a state House hearing on Tuesday, even as the budget deadline looms over lawmakers.

The Harvard astrophysicist has devoted years—and thousands of interviews—to the idea that mysterious objects streaking ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...