New research suggests that the telescope could be poised to detect an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined. Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away -- or ...

Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's ...

Newly discovered comet C/2025 V1 (Borisov), which has some minor similarities to 3I/ATLAS, will make its closest approach to ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest star.

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

Earth’s highest peak isn’t the point that reaches closest to outer space, and the reason has nothing to do with Everest at ...

A newly discovered comet named C/2025 V1, which some have compared to 3I/ATLAS, is due to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...