TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about 40 light years away that hosts seven Earth-sized rocky planets, with at least ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

With new telescopes coming online and fresh discoveries arriving almost weekly, the search is only accelerating. Each new world we find is more than a point of light somewhere in the great darkness.

The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...

Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

The search for a new music director began in the orchestra pit before the job announcement went public. "We asked our ...

Distant Colony's tone in one frame. Build smart habitats and push into a living star system. Pictured: key art with explorer, biodomes, and ships.

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.

Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...