Voyager 1 is on a journey that will outlast civilizations, outlive the Sun’s familiar neighborhood, and eventually drift into ...

A privately funded space telescope with a mirror larger than Hubble’s could soon investigate 27 distant giant planets using a ...

Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

A rocky planet exposed to extreme heat from its star appears to reflect nearly three-quarters of the starlight that reaches ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

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. Astronomers have ...

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, ...

Investor excitement around the SpaceX IPO is colliding with peak Elon Musk futurism after a new social media post featuring his musings about light-speed travel and exploring alien worlds. In a social ...