Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high. In an Ipsos poll conducted last week just after the launch of Artemis ...

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly ...

Usually, comets are dormant blocks of rock and ice. They only wake up when they get close to a star. The intense heat causes ...

An international research team, including astrophysicist Anjali Piette from the University of Birmingham, analysed data ...

In the sci-fi book and now movie Project Hail Mary, astronaut Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, encounters three ...

Scientists find that planets need more than water to support life. Too little water may cause long-term overheating and ...

The comet has been on our radars since the summer of 2025, when the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...

Nearly two dozen ‘Earth-like’ planets that could be crawling with alien life have been identified by scientists. Exoplanets are what scientists call worlds that orbit other stars (though some are ...

Seventy years ago this month, he sought out strange new worlds as a proto-Captain Kirk in sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet".

NASA has released stunning new Artemis II images, including a “Crescent Earthrise” and detailed views of the lunar farside.