NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's surface, with Mars samples worth their weight in scientific gold hanging in ...

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over ...

A new rectangular telescope design could finally spot Earth-like planets around nearby stars, bringing the search for alien ...

A trio of missions are on track to intercept and study the famous near-Earth asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with our planet in April 2029.

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

The sculpture will remain in the Core until 20:00 BST on Sunday for public viewings. This will be the last chance to see GAIA ...