What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

There will be a large planetary alignment on Aug. 10, 2025, featuring Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Vedic astrology associates planetary doshas with imbalances caused by specific planetary positions in birth charts. These ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...