On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

European Space Agency ESA is getting ready to launch in 2026 a terrestrial planets exploration tool called PLAnetary Transits ...

Comet 3I/Atlas may be the oldest spotted so far and should be visible through amateur telescopes in just a few weeks' time.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...