Recently we learned about the exoplanet Kepler-186f, a potentially earthlike, potentially habitable world only around 500 ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

NASA is keeping an eye on a massive “dent” in Earth’s magnetic field that could put an end to humanity as we know it.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale, using relativistic electron beams.

The hunt for exoplanets began in earnest in the 1990s when the first confirmed discovery was made. Since then, astronomers ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, our best success could come from searching nearer to home than many astronomers ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...

Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations ...

Last year saw warming reach startling new highs, with record heat fueling extreme weather around the world. As farms and ...