The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system might harbor potentially Earth-like planets, and researchers in China conducted a thorough search for ...

The best space horror movies not only re-instil the fear of the unknown, but also caution us about the dangers of space ...

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

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our planet in a similar orbit for 60 years.

Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...

Researchers in China have conducted the most thorough search yet for alien radio signals in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, which may harbor potentially Earth-like planets.

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.

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

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

It’s pretty amazing what we can see of our planet these days, isn’t it? For a long time, getting a good look at Earth from ...